From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 557
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print includes St. George's film submission sheet identifying images as having been taken en route and while visiting the state-owned cooperative Veinte Rosas, Oriente Province, at the behest of INRA (Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria) in December 1959. The top row depicts travel through rough terrain in a jeep and the crossing of a flooded road. Remaining images show rural workers dressed in shabby clothes as they consume a meal at long, cafeteria-style wooden tables.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 558
Image Count:
1
Description:
The cooperative "Camilo Cienfuegos," taken at Christmas 1959, shortly after the government announced its decision to cancel payment of traditional Christmas bonuses to sugar workers. Instead, the government offered to sponsor collective Christmas dinners for workers in plantation cafeterias by providing four million dollars in credits for financing. St. George's film submission note, enclosed in this folder, confirms the circumstances of these images. Taken from the backseat of a government jeep, the top row of frames shows an INRA official sitting low in the seat while speaking to an agitated peasant. The driver relaxes his arm along the back of the seat. According to St. George's note, these frames show a "typical" encounter in which a local peasant approaches the jeep and complains directly to the official about conditions on the cooperative with the expectation that his problems might be solved in the "personalistic" fashion reminiscent of the days when peasants similarly complained to the patron (capitalist owner of the plantation).
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December- 1960 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 559
Image Count:
1
Description:
According to St. George's enclosed submission sheet, the images show Cuban government soldiers and stevedores loading a Soviet cargo vessel docked in Santiago's harbor, Oriente Province, with sacks of sugar bound for the Soviet Union. St. George, along with Mallin, was probably not authorized to take these pictures, and may have used a proxy photographer as he refers to the pictures as "sneak shots" and apologizes for their quality.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 454
Image Count:
2
Description:
Continuation (on two sheets) of casino shots shown in Print 10. Also includes more images of the Minoffs enjoying the spectacle of Carnival on El Prado (see also Prints 1 and 7) while uniformed members of the national revolutionary police look on. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 455
Image Count:
3
Description:
Continuation of casino shots shown in Prints 10 and 11. Also included is Mrs. Phyllis Minoff in the swimming pool at the Hotel Caprí, again entirely deserted of all tourists. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 456
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains one full sheet and two torn strips. Images of Jean Paul Sartre, his wife and equally prominent intellectual, Simone de Beauvoir, and several unidentified men talking and lounging poolside at the Hotel Nacional. Sitting on the floor at de Beauvoir's feet is Robert Taber, CBS News correspondent and previous collaborator with St. George for stories on Raúl Castro's guerrilla column in the Sierra Maestra in July 1958. Also included at the bottom of the full sheet and on a partial strip are images of the Minoffs shopping for souvenirs on El Prado, downtown Havana, at night. For more on the Minoffs, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41 and 42.; for more on the Sartre and de Beauvoir visit, see Prints 10, 14, 16, 18, 19 and Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 457
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two sheets. Top frames show Phyllis and Marvin Minoff admiring the view of La Rampa, a commercial and entertainment strip in el Vedado, a neighborhood of Havana, from a viewing window at the Hotel Caprí. Bottom images show Jean Paul Sartre, his wife and equally prominent intellectual, Simone de Beauvoir, and several unidentified men talking and lounging poolside at the Hotel Nacional. Sitting on the floor at de Beauvoir's feet is Robert Taber, CBS News correspondent and previous collaborator with St. George for stories on Raúl Castro's guerrilla column in the Sierra Maestra in July 1958. These hotels are within walking distance of one another in el Vedado, Havana. For more on the Minoffs, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41 and 42; for more on the Sartre and de Beauvoir visit, see Prints 10, 13 16, 18, 19 and Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 458
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes from the first conference on Latin American literature organized by sectors of Cuba's revolutionary government. Present are Vilma Espín, Raúl Castro's wife and president of the soon-to-be founded Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. Speakers include Miguel Angel Asturias, the Guatemalan writer who would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, as well as Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, also a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1971. The conference was organized, in part, by Carlos Franqui and other contributing editors of Lunes, a literary and cultural supplement to the official state newspaper, Revolución. Lunes was later eliminated in 1961 for taking positions on the role and nature of cultural freedoms contrary to those espoused by government leaders, especially Fidel Castro. See also Prints 5, 23, 24, 28, 43-52 and 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 459
Image Count:
1
Description:
Middle frames of this sheet show Jean Paul Sartre, his wife and equally prominent intellectual, Simone de Beauvoir, and several unidentified men talking and lounging poolside at the Hotel Nacional. Sitting on the floor at de Beauvoir's feet and standing and leaning against the door in the top row of frames and bottom is Robert Taber, CBS News correspondent and previous collaborator with St. George for stories on Raúl Castro's guerrilla column in the Sierra Maestra in July 1958. See also Prints 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19 and Book VIII.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 460
Image Count:
2
Description:
Honeymooning couple, Phyllis and Marvin Minoff, whom St. George accompanied to Cuba for a story on the decline in foreign tourism. Here they are seen cavorting at Varadero beach. Very bottom images show the Minoffs at the Hotel Caprí casino. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41 and 42.