Book IX Print 28: Cuban nationalization of American oil businesses
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Description
- Title
- Book IX Print 28: Cuban nationalization of American oil businesses
- Creator
- From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
- Contributor
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From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C. - Published / Created
- 1960 June
- Description
- Images of the Cuban revolutionary government's nationalization of the U.S.-owned oil refinery known as Esso in Cuba (Exxon in the United States), as well as Shell Oil in June 1960. These refineries were located near the Bay of Havana. Their nationalization came as a result of Soviet offers to sell Cuba Russian crude oil at much reduced prices and the U.S. government's refusal to allow its companies to refine the oil. This was the first of all U.S.-owned businesses to be nationalized in the summer of 1960. This process was completed by August and capped off by the imposition of a U.S. embargo against Cuba in October that then prompted the Cubans' subsequent decision to nationalize all properties owned by U.S. citizens, not just businesses. In all, Cuba nationalized hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. businesses and properties. In frames 3-5 of this print, a cloth banner signed by the "Sección Sindical de [unclear]" denounces Yankee imperialism and claims the fatherland ["patria"] for the Cubans. See also Prints 29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43 and 44.
- 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
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Multiple languages
Item Location
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives
- Call Number
- MS 650
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- Manuscripts and Archives
- Cuban revolution collection
- Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers, 1957-1960
- Photographs
- Contact Book IX
- THIS ITEM Book IX Print 28: Cuban nationalization of American oil businesses
- Container / Volume
- Box 7, folder 675
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 614150
- Object ID (OID)
- 10018727