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.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 480
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of images (frames 27-31) show a float during daytime Carnival parade sponsored by a local company that produced a brand of mineral water called "la Cotorra." The float featured dancing girls, as well as a large banner announcing an American company's financing of a building to be constructed in the area of Centro Habana. These images were taken during the daytime, probably early evening hours. The second to fifth rows show the Minoffs enjoying poolside comforts at the Hotel Capri while on their honeymoon in Havana. Frames 5-6 of the bottom row show the Minoffs at a hotel pool in Varadero beach. For more images of the Minoffs, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 481
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. These prints depict a large multistory building complex, part of which appears to be under construction. Included in the images are several frames showing the display of artillery batteries used by the United States military. They were probably used when the United States intervened in Cuba's last war for independence against Spain (1895-1898), often characterized by United States historians as the "Spanish-American War." The artillery batteries are located in a park, possibly adjacent to the building complex. Also evident is St. George's documentation of one of the first signs to appear in Cuba that used quotations from the works of the nineteenth-century nationalist José Martí as part of a state campaign to politicize the landscape with billboards. Quotations like this one soon became standard fare, although they were still a novelty in 1960. This one reads, "Toda la vida es deber. -José Martí (All of life is a duty.-José Martí)." In the left-hand corner of the sign is the word "Municipio," that is, confirmation that it was made by a government agency. This again would become the order of the day in 1960 as all nongovernment publicity or self-expression through public signs would become impermissible.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 482
Image Count:
1
Description:
Street scenes of Carnival in Havana. These were taken by St. George while on an assignment forTime magazine in which he accompanied a honeymooning couple from New York (Phyllis and Marvin Minoff) on their visit to Cuba. For other scenes of carnival, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 27; for other images of the Minoffs, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 446
Image Count:
3
Description:
Contains three sheets. Government building forming part of the new complex of buildings that comprise the ministries of the revolutionary government as of 1960, located in the old La Plaza Cívica, later called La Plaza de la Revolución.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February-March
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 483
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two sheets. Phyllis and Marvin Minoff, a honeymooning couple whose trip to Cuba St. George documented forTime magazine, at the Casino Deportivo, a sports and recreation park on the outskirts of Havana. Frames 21-24 show them chatting with the Cuban Minister of Sports while enjoying a car race. For other images of the Minoffs at the car race, see Prints 8 and 42; for other images of the Minoffs on their honeymoon, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41 and 42.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 484
Image Count:
1
Description:
The bottom three rows feature images of a daytime Carnival parade near the Malecón in Old Havana; the top row (frames 8-11) shows a helicopter carrying Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan as it prepares to land at a pad on the end of the Malecón, facing El Morro fortress in Old Havana. Crowds gather on the ground to watch the parade move toward the helicopter and photographer St. George is seen crossing the street toward Mikoyan's helicopter with an unidentified woman at his side (frames 3-6 of the fourth row). The monument in the background of these images of St. George is a memorial to the eight medical students executed by Spain on November 27, 1871. These photographs of St. George were probably taken by Jay Mallin, a fellow free-lance photographer who accompanied St. George on various assignments in Cuba from 1959-1960. Both were working forTime andLife magazines, respectively. For more images of Carnival, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 27; for images of Mikoyan's visit, see Prints 29, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61-67, 69, 70, 71, 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
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 485
Image Count:
2
Description:
Contains two sheets. This print depicts Marvin and Phyllis Minoff's visit to the race track at Casino Deportivo, their conversations with various bearded officials from the sports ministry, as well as their night-time experience watching Carnival on el Prado in Havana. For other images of the Minoffs' visit to the racetrack, see Prints 8 and 40; for other images of Carnival, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 27; for other images of the Minoffs' honeymoon in Cuba, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
