Book VI Print 49: United States Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal holding press conference; national folkloric dance

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Title: Book VI Print 49: United States Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal holding press conference; national folkloric dance
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 October
Description: Bottom three rows show U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, holding a press conference and answering questions for the Cuban and foreign press in his office at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. At the time, Bonsal was countering Cuban government charges that the United States was aware of and complicit in the campaign of air raids from bases in Florida that batistianos and other exiles had begun launching against Cuba on October 20th of that year. Top two rows depict a national folkloric dance show held in the Plaza of the Cathedral of Old Havana in the front courtyard of an eighteenth-century mansion that had been converted into a restaurant known as La Casona. See also Prints 40, 48, 49, 50 and 64.
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

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 4, folder 418

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