From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 347
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top three rows of frames capture Fidel Castro's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Fidel originally made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The fourth and fifth rows of frames show Fidel and a group of bearded rebel officers as they visit the buildings near the U.S. Capitol. Frames 5 and 6 show two unidentified, elegantly dressed Cuban women in close-up as they apparently attempt to get past a security guard inside an office. Final row of frames show a policeman standing next to a group of anti-Castro protesting picketers outside the hotel entrance. See also Prints 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 348
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of the multitudes gathered at Havana's international airport on May 17, 1959 to receive Fidel Castro upon his return from the highly successful, four-week visit to the United States and Argentina. Riding on the jeep in frames 36 and 37 is Camilo Cienfuegos. In the center of frames 16 and 17 stand Fidel Castro with Raúl Castro at his back as they wade through a crowd after exiting the plane. Also visible in frames 4-7 is Fidel Castro greeting the crowds. See also Prints 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 349
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frame 13 of the top row shows Andrew St. George sitting on the ground with a press band on his left forearm accompanied by an unidentified Cuban. They appear to be awaiting the arrival of Fidel at the airport following his highly successful, four-week visit to the United States and Argentina. Images in frames 9-12 show helmeted members of a national police force as they wait to receive Fidel Castro; frames 4-6 show Fidel Castro descending from the plane at a distance with men bearing the flag of the "Policía Nacional Revolucionaria" amidst the large crowd gathered on the tarmac. The bottom frames provide close-up shots of an unidentified light-eyed guerrilla sporting a particularly impressive beard as well as a close-up of Fidel Castro and other officials waving triumphantly from the podium in front of the monument to José Martí in what was then called the Plaza Cívica in Havana. This image documents Fidel's address to the nation given almost immediately upon his return to Cuba from the United States and Argentina. See also Prints 24, 26, 27, 28 and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 350
Image Count:
2
Description:
Images of various unidentified barbudos and security forces assembled to greet Fidel Castro upon his triumphant return from a highly successful four-week visit to the United States (May 17, 1959). Efigenio Ameijeiras stands in full dress uniform as Captain of the National Revolutionary Police at the center of frame 8. Behind Ameijeiras, it is clear that the balcony of the airport's terminal has been decorated with signs reading "Bienvenido FIDEL." Row 6 of the print features close-up images of Fidel and Camilo Cienfuegos smiling and waving to crowds gathered to hear Fidel's report to the nation on his visit to the United States at the foot of the monument to José Martí in Havana's Plaza Cívica. See also Prints 24, 25, 27, 28, and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 351
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print documents the spectacle of civilian supporters, officials and military authorities from all divisions of Cuba's armed forces, including the navy and national police, that assembled to greet Fidel Castro and his entourage upon their return from a highly successful, four-week visit to the United States and Argentina. Frame 13 shows Fidel Castro emerging from the plane and subsequent rows depict him as he descends the stairs of the plane and begins to encounter the massive crowd. See also Prints 24, 25, 26, 28 and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 352
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of the gathering of a massive crowd in Havana's Plaza Cívica to hear Fidel Castro address the nation upon his return from a highly successful four-week trip to the United States and Argentina. See also Prints 24, 25, 26, 27 and 29.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 353
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of the gathering of a massive crowd in Havana's Plaza Cívica to hear Fidel Castro address the nation upon his return from a highly successful four-week trip to the United States. Frames to the left of the bottom row of photographs show that the crowd has climbed up the two flanks leading to the central podium at which Fidel Castro will speak before the monument to José Martí in the Plaza Cívica of Havana right after his return. In the midst of the same frames and becoming visible in the final frames to the right is Fidel Castro, surrounded by security agents, making his way to the podium. See also Prints 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 326
Image Count:
1
Description:
Documenting Fidel Castro's trip to the United States that began with a visit to Washington, D.C. in mid-April, this print shows Castro surrounded by a large crowd of curious Americans as he walks in the area around the Cuban Embassy at 2630 16th Street NW, where he was lodging (visible in the background of frames 7 and 8). He is seen talking to a pair of small African-American boys and shaking hands through the windows of a passing bus. See also Prints 1, 4, 6 and 9.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 354
Image Count:
1
Description:
Contains two identical contact sheets. Fidel Castro and accompanying officials on the train north from Washington, D.C. to Princeton, New Jersey, where Fidel will give a number of public speeches to increasingly larger crowds of Americans. From New Jersey, Fidel continued to New York City where Columbia University's invitation that Fidel Castro speak drew such interest that the location had to be moved to Central Park and finally to Boston where Fidel visited and gave a speech at Harvard University. Here, in frames 25-33, Fidel Castro is seen eating in the dining car with Rufo López Fresquet, the first Minister of the Treasury under the revolutionary government, at his side. Frames 5-7 show Fidel's arrival at the station and remaining frames 6-8 appear to show seats in the salon where Fidel will deliver an address in New York City (for other images related to that address, see Print 39). See also Prints 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43 and 44.
