From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 412-413
Image Count:
2
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro addressing a mass rally of Cubans whom he called out on October 26, 1959, to express support for his decision to arrest Commander Huber Matos for resigning his military post and to charge him with treason and attempting to conspire against the revolutionary government. Matos was later sentenced to twenty years in prison. The rally was also called in order to show popular support for the recommissioning of Revolutionary Tribunals to try internal enemies of Cuba for counterrevolution and to protest recent incursions into Cuban airspace by Florida-based planes that had been carrying out bombing, leafletting and other violent raids on Cuba in order to topple the government in those days. All speakers addressed the crowd from the balcony of the Presidential Palace. Frames in the second row from the top of this print show Raúl Castro also addressing the crowds. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 70.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 426-428
Image Count:
3
Description:
Images taken from the balcony of the Presidential Palace at a mass rally called by Fidel Castro on October 26, 1959, and organized by government-affiliated labor unions to express support for Fidel Castro's decision to arrest Commander Huber Matos for resigning his military post and to charge him with treason and attempting to conspire against the revolutionary government. Matos was later sentenced to twenty years in prison. The rally was also called in order to show popular support for the recommissioning of Revolutionary Tribunals to try internal enemies of Cuba for counterrevolution and to protest recent air raids by counterrevolutionary exile groups, largely comprised of batistianos, based in Florida. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 46, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, and 70.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 543
Image Count:
1
Description:
Cuba's national symphony as they play in honor of the visit of Anastas Mikoyan. Bottom frames show Mikoyan and Vilma Espín during intermission. See also Prints 97 and 99.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February 5
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 549
Image Count:
1
Description:
Televised press conference with Anastas Mikoyan and his Soviet translator, held the day before the announcement of a historic, new trade agreement between the Soviet Union and Cuba. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101 and 102.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 550-555
Image Count:
6
Description:
Fidel Castro's televised presentation on the merits of the new $100,000,000 trade deal signed with the Soviet Union earlier that week. Fidel is shown before the maps and charts that he brought along to illustrate the advantages the Soviets offered Cuba. The name of the television program was Ante la prensa. See also Prints 103, 104, 105.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 February
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 453
Image Count:
1
Description:
Based on St. George's own submission notes enclosed in this file, these images show the Minoffs at the casino at the Hotel Caprí, entirely deserted of all tourists, which is located on the famous street called La Rampa that connects the central area surrounding the University of Havana to the Malecón, or sea wall. The only people sitting in the casino besides the Minoffs and the dealer are two off-duty showgirls from the nightclub at El Caprí and what he calls a "b-girl," or free-lance and high-class prostitute. Other images in the prints show a group of foreigners lounging alongside the pool at the Hotel Nacional. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 556
Image Count:
1
Description:
René Vallejo, apparently providing an interview to Jay Mallin, a reporter accompanying St. George. Vallejo was the director of the Instituto for Agrarian Reform for the province of Oriente. Film submission sheet enclosed with the contact sheet states that Mallin used the interview in an article he dispatched to unidentified source and that Andrew St. George was working for Magnum Photos, Inc.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 557
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print includes St. George's film submission sheet identifying images as having been taken en route and while visiting the state-owned cooperative Veinte Rosas, Oriente Province, at the behest of INRA (Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria) in December 1959. The top row depicts travel through rough terrain in a jeep and the crossing of a flooded road. Remaining images show rural workers dressed in shabby clothes as they consume a meal at long, cafeteria-style wooden tables.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 December
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 558
Image Count:
1
Description:
The cooperative "Camilo Cienfuegos," taken at Christmas 1959, shortly after the government announced its decision to cancel payment of traditional Christmas bonuses to sugar workers. Instead, the government offered to sponsor collective Christmas dinners for workers in plantation cafeterias by providing four million dollars in credits for financing. St. George's film submission note, enclosed in this folder, confirms the circumstances of these images. Taken from the backseat of a government jeep, the top row of frames shows an INRA official sitting low in the seat while speaking to an agitated peasant. The driver relaxes his arm along the back of the seat. According to St. George's note, these frames show a "typical" encounter in which a local peasant approaches the jeep and complains directly to the official about conditions on the cooperative with the expectation that his problems might be solved in the "personalistic" fashion reminiscent of the days when peasants similarly complained to the patron (capitalist owner of the plantation).
