From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 471
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes from the first literary conference organized by the revolutionary government. 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. Top rows feature images of an unidentified United States writer, answering reporters' questions, as well as the impassioned addresses of two speakers, one of whom is Latin American and the other Asian, at the conference itself. See also Prints 5, 23, 24, 28, 43-52 and 55.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 472
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains one sheet and one strip. Images here are from three separate events. Top images (frames 4-14) show Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan's helicopter as it returns to Havana from a trip to the provinces during his official visit to Cuba that began on February 4, 1960. Frames 15-21 show the exterior of the Museo de Bellas Artes, site of the Soviet Union's famous culture and trade show, which Mikoyan inaugurated in Havana in early February 1960. Bottom two rows show Phyllis and Marvin Minoff on an otherwise empty plane as they take an excursion to the provinces during the course of their honeymoon stay. For more images of the Minoffs, see also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94. For other images of Mikoyan's visit, see Prints 29, 41, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61-67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106, and Contact 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 445
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two full sheets of prints. Images of children during morning assembly at the newly constructed school at Camp Columbia, the famous military base originally founded by the U.S. military during the first U.S. occupation of Cuba (1898-1902). Camp Columbia had been the site of the Sergeants' Revolt, led by Fulgencio Batista, against army superiors. This action, taken in favor of the revolutionary movement against the dictator Machado, made Batista an instant national hero until his rupture with Cuba's short-lived revolutionary government in 1933. Thereafter and until 1959, Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot for the dictator Fulgencio Batista's national army. For this reason, Fidel Castro chose the base as the site from which to make his first speech of triumph to the nation upon his troops' arrival in Havana on the night of January 8, 1959. Camp Columbia was renamed Ciudad Libertad after the founding of the school and it became the first of many army barracks and bases that the government re-crafted as schools in the next several years. Ironically, as the images show, the system of education and cultural values instilled by school programs (such as daily assembly) was highly militarized. See also Prints 6, 9, 32, 33, 34, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 473
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains two sheets. Images of Phyllis and Marvin Minoff as they board a plane to Varadero beach from Havana. Bottom set of images shows the empty lobby at the hotel in Varadero and the honeymooners enjoying their food at a cafeteria, probably located at the airport. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 474
Image Count:
1
Description:
Contains one full and one half sheet. Top frames show foreign tourists being greeted by official, singing greeters as they descend the stairs of a plane upon arrival in Havana. Images in bottom four rows show the Minoffs lounging poolside at the Hotel Caprí, in el Vedado, Havana. For more images of the Minoffs, see also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30, 37, 41 and 42; for images of tourists being greeted at the airport, see also Prints 4 and 26.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 475
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of schoolboys practicing military-style marches at the new school built on former military base at Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad. Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot for the dictator Fulgencio Batista's national army. For this reason, Fidel Castro chose the base as the site from which to make his first speech of triumph to the nation upon his troops' arrival in Havana on the night of January 8, 1959. Camp Columbia was renamed Ciudad Libertad after the founding of the school and it became the first of many army barracks and bases that the government re-crafted as schools in the next several years. Ironically, as the images show, the system of education and cultural values instilled by school programs (such as daily assembly) was highly militarized. See also Prints 2, 6, 9, 33, 34, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 476
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of schoolboys practicing military-style marches at the new school built on former military base at Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad. Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot for the dictator Fulgencio Batista's national army. For this reason, Fidel Castro chose the base as the site from which to make his first speech of triumph to the nation upon his troops' arrival in Havana on the night of January 8, 1959. Camp Columbia was renamed Ciudad Libertad after the founding of the school and it became the first of many army barracks and bases that the government re-crafted as schools in the next several years. Ironically, as the images show, the system of education and cultural values instilled by school programs (such as daily assembly) were highly militarized. See also Prints 2, 6, 9, 32, 33, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 477
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Images of schoolboys practicing military-style marches at the new school built on former military base at Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad. Camp Columbia had been the principal military operations and intelligence depot for the dictator Fulgencio Batista's national army. For this reason, Fidel Castro chose the base as the site from which to make his first speech of triumph to the nation upon his troops' arrival in Havana on the night of January 8, 1959. Camp Columbia was renamed Ciudad Libertad after the founding of the school and it became the first of many army barracks and bases that the government re-crafted as schools in the next several years. Ironically, as the images show, the system of education and cultural values instilled by school programs (such as daily assembly) was highly militarized. See also Prints 2, 6, 9, 32, 33, and 36.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 478
Image Count:
5
Description:
Contains three full sheets and two half sheets. These images depict a construction crew at work on a new hotel in Santiago de Cuba, high in the Sierra Maestra overlooking the city. A large billboard announces that it is a public works project funded by the Gobierno Revolucionario and it includes the slogan, "Revolution is to build."
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 479
Image Count:
4
Description:
Contains four sheets. Images of schoolboys preparing to take their afternoon meal at the government school at former Camp Columbia, renamed Ciudad Libertad, in the company of a female teacher or administrator. Other images show the boys being loaded onto trucks for transport to another site by members of the army. The images are striking because they reveal the poverty of the students, most of whom are barefoot. See also Print 2, 6, 9, 32, 33, and 34.
