From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 350
Image Count:
2
Description:
Images of various unidentified barbudos and security forces assembled to greet Fidel Castro upon his triumphant return from a highly successful four-week visit to the United States (May 17, 1959). Efigenio Ameijeiras stands in full dress uniform as Captain of the National Revolutionary Police at the center of frame 8. Behind Ameijeiras, it is clear that the balcony of the airport's terminal has been decorated with signs reading "Bienvenido FIDEL." Row 6 of the print features close-up images of Fidel and Camilo Cienfuegos smiling and waving to crowds gathered to hear Fidel's report to the nation on his visit to the United States at the foot of the monument to José Martí in Havana's Plaza Cívica. See also Prints 24, 25, 27, 28, and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 351
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print documents the spectacle of civilian supporters, officials and military authorities from all divisions of Cuba's armed forces, including the navy and national police, that assembled to greet Fidel Castro and his entourage upon their return from a highly successful, four-week visit to the United States and Argentina. Frame 13 shows Fidel Castro emerging from the plane and subsequent rows depict him as he descends the stairs of the plane and begins to encounter the massive crowd. See also Prints 24, 25, 26, 28 and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 352
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of the gathering of a massive crowd in Havana's Plaza Cívica to hear Fidel Castro address the nation upon his return from a highly successful four-week trip to the United States and Argentina. See also Prints 24, 25, 26, 27 and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 353
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of the gathering of a massive crowd in Havana's Plaza Cívica to hear Fidel Castro address the nation upon his return from a highly successful four-week trip to the United States. Frames to the left of the bottom row of photographs show that the crowd has climbed up the two flanks leading to the central podium at which Fidel Castro will speak before the monument to José Martí in the Plaza Cívica of Havana right after his return. In the midst of the same frames and becoming visible in the final frames to the right is Fidel Castro, surrounded by security agents, making his way to the podium. See also Prints 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28.
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.
