From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 387
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows show the toll booths at the entrance to the national highway heading east out of Havana, today known as Vía Blanca. No one appears to be manning the toll booths and someone has placed a sign on one of them that reads: "FIDEL NUESTRA HAMBRE ES DE 4 MESES." The second to last row of images relates to those in Prints 20 and 21: they show men standing in line outside of what might be a store or food distribution center; frame 13 of this row shows a man with a hook in his left hand that descends from a pipe above. He appears to be weighing something. Bottom row of pictures shows a fashion show taking place in the patio of a large hotel, possibly the Havana Hilton. The models are using the countertop of the bar as a catwalk. See also Prints 19, 20 and 21.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 388
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 8 and 9 in the top row of images represent a fashion show taking place in the patio of a large hotel, possibly the Havana Hilton. The models are using the countertop of the bar as a catwalk. Succeeding photographs show various members of a Cuban official's personal bodyguard detail standing at different locations outside an opulent villa located on a small rise. See also Print 18.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 389
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows of frames show a student demonstration in favor of the government and continued policy of executing citizens charged with counterrevolution. Many of the signs held by the students show their affiliation to the "Sección Estudiantil M. 26-7" and the Juventud Socialista. The demonstration took place at the foot of the entrance to the Presidential Palace. Final row of frames shows men standing in line in a hallway constructed with a wooden frame lined in chicken wire that separates two groups of men. Location of the latter pictures unclear. See also Prints 18 and 21.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 395
Image Count:
2
Description:
In mid-October, Havana became the site of the U.S.-based American Society of Travel Agents' [ASTA] annual convention. Proposed by ASTA months earlier and accepted enthusiastically by the Cuban government, the convention took place at an extremely tense time in Cuba following the resignation of Commander Huber Matos, military governor of Camagüey, from his post, and Fidel Castro's subsequent decision to arrest him, most of his unit and many others on charges of treason. The convention began, however, on a very optimistic note as Raúl Castro, Minister of the Armed Forces, President Osvaldo Dorticós, the First Lady, Air Force Chief Juan Almeida Bosque, Miss Brasilia and others prepared to receive delegates at the Havana Hilton. This print documents the arrival of Raúl Castro and Dorticós' party to convention headquarters. In Prints 11 and 12, President Dorticós is seen wearing a badge that reads (in English): "Ask me, I live here" and the First Lady is seen wearing a similar badge, reading "INFORMATION." In Print 29, it is clear that Raúl Castro bears the same badge as Dorticós on his chest. See also Prints 27, 28, 34, 41, 45, 51, 65, 73 and 74.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 396
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of prints depicts Raúl Castro greeting delegates to the ASTA convention and offering them tiny cups of Cuban espresso at convention headquarters in the Havana Hilton. The second row of prints shows Fidel Castro addressing participants in the ASTA convention on the morning of October 19. Behind him are the United States, Cuban and ASTA flags; behind him is a banner reading "American Society of Travel Agents." Rows 4 and 5 show Fidel Castro later that evening as he addresses a national televised audience on "Ante la Prensa" and denounces Commander Huber Matos for having resigned his post in protest of what Matos alleged was increasing evidence of Communist influence. In this speech, Castro condemns Matos for resigning as a traitor and asserts that his resignation would have served as a prelude to an armed conspiracy. Frames 13-15 of the fourth row show Raúl Castro with Che Guevara at his side sitting in the studio audience. Frames 16 and 17 show Fidel Castro and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez. The last row of photos shows images taken of the mass demonstration before the Presidential Palace organized by state-affiliated labor unions in support of Castro's arrest of Matos and decision to reopen the Revolutionary Tribunals on October 26, 1959. For related images of the ASTA convention, see Prints 26, 28, 34, 41, 45, 51, 65, 73 and 74. For images of Fidel Castro denouncing Matos on television, see Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60. For images of the October 25th mass rally, see Prints 34, 41 43, 44, 46, 52, 47, 53, 54,55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 66 and 70.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 398
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of protestors blocking traffic on Calle Línea in el Vedado in response to the Cuban government's announcement that Pedro Díaz Lanz, the head of Cuba's Revolutionary Air Force who had defected to Miami in June, 1959, had carried out a leafletting air raid over Havana and that subsequent encounters with Cuban jets resulted in damage to buildings below, allegedly by bombs dropped from his plane. Díaz Lanz eventually landed again at a base in Florida. The Cuban government called this relatively minor incursion on their air space for terroristic purposes, "Havana's Pearl Harbor." In frame 11, a lone black man carries a barely legible protest sign as others, including a boy wearing a metal helmet and a man wearing a militia uniform, look on. See also Prints 30 and 69.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 399
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of protestors blocking traffic on Calle Línea in el Vedado (frames 9, 10, 27, 28) and the Malecón (frames 7, 8 and 26) in response to the Cuban government's announcement that Pedro Díaz Lanz, the head of Cuba's Revolutionary Air Force who had defected to Miami in June of 1959, had carried out a leafletting air raid over Havana and that subsequent encounters with Cuban jets resulted in damage to buildings below, allegedly by bombs dropped from his plane. Díaz Lanz eventually landed again at a base in Florida. The Cuban government called this relatively minor incursion on their air space for terroristic purposes, "Havana's Pearl Harbor." In frame 9 and 10, a lone black man carries a barely legible protest sign as others crowd around him. See also Prints 29 and 69.
