Book IV Print 74: Fidel Castro visiting the Jefferson Memorial; Fidel Castro eating meal in Washington D.C.

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Manuscripts and Archives > Cuban revolution collection (MS 650) > Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers > Photographs > Contact Book IV > Book IV Print 74: Fidel Castro visiting the Jefferson Memorial; Fidel Castro eating meal in Washington D.C.


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Description

Title
Book IV Print 74: Fidel Castro visiting the Jefferson Memorial; Fidel Castro eating meal in Washington D.C.
Creator
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created
1959 April
Description
The bottom rows of this print depict the massive crowd of security officers, reporters and on-lookers as they follow Fidel up to the Jefferson Memorial where he would leave a wreath before the statue and pose for reporters' cameras. Top five rows of images show Fidel Castro eating a large meal, including rice and beans, while talking with staff in his bedroom at what appears to be the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of his visit to the Jefferson Memorial, see Print 70 and 71. For other images of Fidel Castro dining in his bedroom with staff, see Print 77.
Provenance
Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Multiple languages

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 4, folder 320

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Citation
Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018320

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