From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959-1960]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 382
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top four rows of images depict President Osvaldo Dorticós delivering a televised speech to the nation from his office at the Presidential Palace; Minister of Foreign Relations Raúl Roa sits to his left and a bust of José Martí is behind him. Bottom row shows Fidel Castro addressing a large crowd in the plaza of what appears to be Santiago de Cuba, possibly in December of 1959 or January of 1960. See also Print 12.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959-1960]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 383
Image Count:
1
Description:
Bottom row shows Fidel Castro addressing a large crowd in the plaza of what appears to be Santiago de Cuba, possibly in December of 1959 or January of 1960. The third through fifth rows of photographs show Fidel Castro delivering a nighttime address. Behind him, to his left, stands Crescencio Pérez, a peasant made famous for having first helped Fidel and his surviving group of guerrillas after their fateful landing of the Granma on the southern shore of Oriente in December of 1956. Pérez's long line of formal and informal kin relations proved invaluable to the stabilization and long-term successful legitimization of Fidel's guerrillas among the highland populations of the Sierra Maestra. After the war, Fidel awarded Pérez with a commission in the Revolutionary Armed Forces. The final row of images shows Fidel Castro flanked by President Osvaldo Dorticós and the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Enrique Pérez Serantes, at a formal dinner in an outdoor ceremonial setting. Behind them stand a large number of uniformed soldiers, Cuban marines and waiters. Sitting before Dorticós appears to be small standing statue of José Martí that might have been presented to him during the course of the evening's affair. See also Prints 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959-1960]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 384
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows show unidentified foreign mother feeding her little girl in what appears to be a North American kitchen. Second row from the bottom features images of Fidel Castro delivering a nighttime address. Behind him, to his left, stands Crescencio Pérez (white beard, arms crossed), a peasant made famous for having first helped Fidel and his surviving group of guerrillas after their fateful landing of the Granma on the southern shore of Oriente in December of 1956. Pérez's long line of formal and informal kin relations proved invaluable to the stabilization and long-term successful legitimization of Fidel's guerrillas among the highland populations of the Sierra Maestra. Final row of images shows Fidel Castro flanked by President Osvaldo Dorticós and the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Enrique Pérez Serantes, at a formal dinner in an outdoor ceremonial setting. Behind them stand a large number of uniformed soldiers, Cuban marines and waiters. See also Prints 12, 13 and 14.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
[1959-1960]
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 385
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro addressing a large crowd in the plaza of what appears to be Santiago de Cuba, possibly in December of 1959 or January of 1960. Row three shows Raúl Castro listening to the speech and gleefully drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola. See also Prints 14 and 17.
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.
