From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
Circa 1958
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 1
Image Count:
14
Description:
The images of guerrillas in Fidel Castro’s column are engaged in wartime activities and scenes of everyday life. The photographs show the preparation of hand-made bombs in a clandestine bomb shop run by a bearded veteran of the Spanish Civil War; guerrillas manning a look-out post from the mountains near El Cobre, Oriente while others are engaged in routine activities such as cleaning a rifle, repairing a uniform with a Singer sewing machine, relaxing with children in the guerrilla camp, enjoying a pig roast, and a man applying talcum powder to a young boy.
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1960 January
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 13
Image Count:
4
Description:
Dating from the early months of 1960, these photographs were taken when St. George accompanied Fidel Castro and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, both directors of Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA), as they made an inspection tour of recently nationalized farms and plantations in the interior of the country. The images include a shot of several university-age students outfitted in militia uniforms as they await the arrival of a bus that will probably take them to a political education camp in the mountains. The students wear new boots and are carrying weapons as well as personal items, including multiple packs of cigarettes in the case of the boy and a fashionable fur hat in the case of one of the girls. Another image shows Fidel and his aide René Vallejo surrounded by peasants in a small town. Additional images show Fidel walking along a road at a state farm with others; Fidel addressing a group of peasants at the state farm’s social club for workers (volleyball net in foreground, Fidel’s head barely visible above the crowd); a young peasant with a rifle doing guard duty before the INRA Tienda del Pueblo; INRA officials in a corn field; Vallejo talking with officials at the foot of a ceiba tree; an unidentified construction site; peasants lounging on a tractor as the sun sets in the background; peasant driving an ox cart; Vallejo reviewing correspondence in a hotel room; and peasants on a cart in front of the Tienda del Pueblo.
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
Circa 1959-1960
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 19
Image Count:
1
Description:
There is a close up image of Carlos Prío de Socarrás, former President of Cuba who was deposed by Batista’s March 1952 coup. Prío provided money for Fidel to mount his expedition to Cuba in 1956 from Mexico aboard the yacht Granma. Prío later returned twice in 1959 and 1960 to show his support for the regime. He later broke with the Revolution and died by suicide in Miami in 1973. A second picture depicts Carlos Franqui (with moustache), editor of Revolución, the organ of the 26th of July Movement as of January 1959 that later became the government’s official newspaper, with unknown man at his side. A third photograph depicts Vilma Espín as she is giving a speech at a conference in Mexico City. The photograph includes a caption by St. George on the verso: “STANDING APPLAUSE FROM ELITE LEADERS OF LATIN AMERICAN LEFT interrupts speech by Vilma Espín at Inter-American Anti-Imperialist Congress, a Communist-front rally she had helped organize in Mexico City. Standing at table, l—r, are Olga Poblete of Chile, Stalin-prize winner, author and top Chilean feminist leader; the Soviet Chief Delegate, Ambassador Vladimir M. Krimenko; Former President Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico; General Felipe Yara, a famous revolutionary leader.”
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created:
1959 March 6
Call Number:
MS 1912
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 11
Image Count:
5
Description:
Fidel Castro and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal had their first face-to-face meeting on March 6, 1959, at Castro's villa in Cojímar. These photographs document that event. In one image an unidentified rebel officer is standing between Bonsal and Castro. Included are a number of pictures of Bonsal conversing with the Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, Roberto Agramonte, possibly before Fidel arrived. There are photographs of others shown waiting and mingling in the same location.
