From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 125
Image Count:
1
Description:
This sheet features images of the photographer, Andrew St. George, as he relaxes with peasant children and rebel soldiers guarding a safehouse and rebel outpost in an isolated rural area at the foot of the Sierra Maestra (fall, 1958). Frames 26-30 depict the group of peasant boys to whom St. George was showing his camera in Print 54. Prints 7 through 22 show St. George riding around in a rebel-driven jeep with camera in hand; it is not clear who is taking pictures of him. See also Print 54.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 75
Image Count:
1
Description:
Additional views of advanced command post under Cdte. Rene de los Santos near Santiago. Frames 8-11 show typically effortful activity at rebel motor shop run by lieutenant known as "Caballo Loco" (center, hat) to reactivate stuck vehicles. Other frames show rebel patrols on outskirts of Santiago: a foot patrol (18-20) and a jeep patrol halted at the roadside by an approaching government plane overhead (invisible in this photo.) See also Prints 3 and 4.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 76
Image Count:
1
Description:
This is a sheet of Havana sidelights during mid-1958. Top four frames (15-18) show the newsroom of the busy Canal 12, Cuba's (and Latin America's) first all-color station, during early afternoon newscast: newsman on right is Juan Gonzalez, but newsman on left, holding teletype sheet, is not "Mike Alonso" as indicated on sign, but the popular Carlos Castaneda. Other frames are entertainment displays and a local nightclub dancer, "La Bongosera."
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 77
Image Count:
1
Description:
A series of short takes showing rebel positions on perimeter of Sierra stronghold: this one at Maffo, under Capt. Henrique Boronat* (on the bottom rows of frames, Capt. Boronat is always the young officer in broadbrimmed hat on extreme right, with armband and shoulder patch: he is also shown on frames 27-31 supervising coffee processing in a local cafetal.) Frames 25-26 show another significant perimeter activity: this is the "defection team" of Cdte. Faul Chibas (right, beard, hat, eyeglasses) and Cdte. Jose Quevedo (center). Cdte. Quevedo was a high-ranking Batista Army officer captured by the rebel forces during the big government push in June 1958; Quevedo (who was trapped together with most of his troop, the 17th Bataillon) subsequently joined the guerrilla forces and went on special assignment with Raul Chibas. Their mission was to contact military commanders commanding government troops at army outposts facing the rebel perimeter, and attempt to talk them into defecting to the Castro forces. Note man on left in these two frames (civilian with sombrero, pistol) is typical local go-between utilized in these clandestine feelers towards wavering government officers. Frames 32-36 show funeral of local townsman caught in crossfire between rebel and government patrols. Note on last frame (36) bearded Negro officer in center is "Pombo" who accompanied Che to Bolivia in 1967 and became one of half-dozen guerrilla leaders in that expedition to escape alive and somehow return to Cuba via Chile. *Not to be confused with Victor Boronat shown in Book 1.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 78
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel forward post over Santiago; this one near La Lata, then Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque's column command post. It is commanded by Capt. Rigoberto Ramirez (officer shown in hammock in frames 28-29) and its principal function was that of a bombshop and demolition training post, one of several maintained by the rebels in the Sierra. Most of the frames show Capt. Ramirez with his favorite devices: pipebombs, home-crafted road mines, etc. Top three left frames show guerrilla hammocks slung in an abandoned back-country cockpit. Boy is local mascot.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 79
Image Count:
1
Description:
Rebel command post of Capt. Eddie Sunol (shown checking supplies on frame 28). Anciano sifting rice is local nutritionist. On Frames 20-21: Lt. Hanibal Hidalgo, at the time photographer's travel aide. Photographer shown with photo mule on Frames 22-23.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959 January 1, 2?]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 135
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows the destruction of civilian dwellings by Batista's air force bombing campaign in the weeks leading up to the final collapse and partial surrender of the dictator's high command. Frames 11-12 show a Catholic priest, probably a Franciscan, speaking with members of the rebel forces in an area that appears to be an abandoned bunker. In many cases, Batista's troops gave themselves up to the conquering rebels through Catholic clerics who served as intermediaries. See also Print 12.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 136
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro and troops taking over a Cuban military air base, probably located in Oriente, and commandeering a military tank. Herbert Matthews of theNew York Times can be seen in suit and tie standing behind Fidel Castro in frame 4 of this print. Matthews met Fidel at the air base in the first days following the rebel victory. He had not seen Fidel since their first encounter in the mountains on February 17, 1959. See also Print 12.
