From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 326
Image Count:
1
Description:
Documenting Fidel Castro's trip to the United States that began with a visit to Washington, D.C. in mid-April, this print shows Castro surrounded by a large crowd of curious Americans as he walks in the area around the Cuban Embassy at 2630 16th Street NW, where he was lodging (visible in the background of frames 7 and 8). He is seen talking to a pair of small African-American boys and shaking hands through the windows of a passing bus. See also Prints 1, 4, 6 and 9.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 354
Image Count:
1
Description:
Contains two identical contact sheets. Fidel Castro and accompanying officials on the train north from Washington, D.C. to Princeton, New Jersey, where Fidel will give a number of public speeches to increasingly larger crowds of Americans. From New Jersey, Fidel continued to New York City where Columbia University's invitation that Fidel Castro speak drew such interest that the location had to be moved to Central Park and finally to Boston where Fidel visited and gave a speech at Harvard University. Here, in frames 25-33, Fidel Castro is seen eating in the dining car with Rufo López Fresquet, the first Minister of the Treasury under the revolutionary government, at his side. Frames 5-7 show Fidel's arrival at the station and remaining frames 6-8 appear to show seats in the salon where Fidel will deliver an address in New York City (for other images related to that address, see Print 39). See also Prints 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 355
Image Count:
1
Description:
First four rows of frames show Fidel Castro with police escorts and a surging crowd of excited students on what appears to be the Princeton University campus where he made a brief stop on his way to New York City, and reception by enthusiastic crowds. Bottom three rows of frames depict Fidel's departure from New Jersey by train and street scenes of welcoming picketers outside the Statler Hilton, where Fidel apparently stayed once in New York City City. Frames 8 and 9 show a group of Haitians in exile from the Duvalier regime in Haiti carrying signs of welcome and others carrying the U.S. flag. See also Prints 30, 32, 33, 37, 38, 41, 43 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 356
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of Fidel Castro's departure from Washington and arrival in New York City by train during the second-to-last leg of his tour of the United States from April 14-26, 1959. He returned to Cuba after visiting Argentina in early May of 1959. Frames 13-15 show the faces of excited Cuban exiles, many of whom supported the Revolution financially from abroad, and to whom Fidel promised he would return victorious when he first canvassed New York City's Cuban community in 1955 for start-up funds for his guerrilla war. Frame 13 shows one of them holding a sign that reads "Fidel Directorio Revolucionario te saluda." Frames 31 and 32 show Fidel as he boards a dark car amidst heavy security in front of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in Manhattan. See also Prints 30, 31, 33 and 35.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 357
Image Count:
1
Description:
Reception for Fidel Castro hosted by faculty and students at Princeton University during the latter part of his trip to the United States that began April 14 and ended April 26, 1959, with Fidel Castro's departure for Argentina. Frames 34-35 show students seated in a large meeting hall with stained glass windows. In these shots, it is not clear who the speaker(s) might be or if Fidel Castro was present. See also Prints 30, 31, 34 , 35, 37, 38, 41, 43 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 358
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro and his entourage are shown at the train station in Princeton, New Jersey, probably as they make their way to New York City. The woman standing behind Fidel Castro in a white hat in frames 11-17 is Teresa Casuso, his special assistant in charge of public relations during the early months of the Revolution until her defection in October 1960. See also Prints 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 41, 43 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 359
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a jubilant Fidel Castro standing at the door of his car in front of the Statler Hilton, apparently upon arrival in New York City City, where he was greeted by an onslaught of supporters, many, if not most of them, Cuban exiles who had supported the Revolution financially from abroad since Fidel's visit there to gather funds in 1955. These images were taken in the second-to-last-leg of Fidel's four-week tour of the eastern United States which would end with a stop in Boston. See also Prints 30, 31 and 32.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 360
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro visits the New York Times where he publicly awarded a medal to Herbert Matthews, the first reporter to visit his then tiny band of guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra in late February of 1957 and to whose subsequent reports he owed much of his initial positive press and notoriety in the United States. In frame 15, Herbert Matthews can be seen with his hand to cheek, leaning forward in the minutes before Fidel is set to speak. During his visit to the newspaper's headquarters, Fidel awarded Matthews with a special gold medal for his service to the Revolution. See also Prints 40 and 45.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 361
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the reception given by faculty and students for Fidel Castro at Princeton University, as well as his address to a large gathering, probably at the same institution. The visit to Princeton took place during the latter part of his trip to the United States that began April 14 and ended April 26, 1959, with Fidel Castro's departure for Argentina. Bottom rows of frames show students standing with arms raised to ask questions of Castro. See also Prints 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 43 and 44.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 362
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top rows of frames show cheering students as Fidel Castro rides in his car on the Princeton campus to a reception held in his honor. Third row of frames show members of Fidel's entourage, including Teresa Casuso, his special assistant (in white hat) on a train, although it is not clear on which part of the journey north these were taken. After a multi-day stay in Washington, D.C., Fidel went to Princeton, then New York City and finally Boston, eventually departing for Argentina on April 26th and returning to Cuba in mid-May. Frames 4-12 show Fidel lounging on a bed and speaking to several members of his staff on the trip, probably at the lodgings arranged for them in New Jersey. Bottom frames depict members of the New Jersey state police patrolling the reception while Fidel Castro talks to Princeton administrators. See also Prints 30, 31, 32, 33, 37 and 41.
