From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 756
Image Count:
1
Description:
Members of the 26th of July Movement enjoying a meal in a backroom of the Havana Hilton, where Fidel Castro and his entourage installed themselves for several months after the initial triumph of revolutionary forces against Batista. Guerrillas and their families often ate and enjoyed the facilities at the hotel for free, signing only their names and ensuring that Celia Sánchez would cover the costs of their stay as the chief executor of remaining cash funds from wartime contributions to the guerrillas. Frames 5 and 6 show Ernest "Che" Guevara surrounded by a crowd and talking to a uniformed official and a man in a cowboy hat in the lobby of the Hilton. External view of the Hilton's driveway as Fidel arrives at the entrance appear in Print 40, frames 30 and 31; other views of Fidel and members of his party having dinner appear in Print 41.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 758
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows United States hostages laughing and enjoying after-lunch conversation with three female members of a peasant family in wooden house used by the revolutionary forces. Frames 15-16 show two of the women making fun of the impressive paunch of one of the hostages by putting their hands on his belly as the other hostages and a rebel guard laugh heartily and look on. Frames 17-21 show the men sitting and standing outside, on the porch of the hut, and speaking to one of their rebel caretakers, a young black guerrilla.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 759
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top rows of frames depict a group of rebels in a requisitioned truck as they inspect the damage they have apparently done to building belonging to a sugar mill. Row two shows the rebels driving past a railroad car loaded with sugar cane that has been abandoned on the tracks, as well as a picture of Efigenio Ameijeiras sitting at table. The next row, frame 1, and the final, fourth row of frames show Ameijeiras and several other rebels, sitting at a table inside a wooden building; two of the men, sitting at the head of the table and facing the camera are probably part of the group of United States hostages taken earlier that summer. Row three shows Efigenio Ameijeiras and other rebels as seen through the front window of a jeep parked alongside a road. Frames 19 and 20 show a local black peasant balancing a bunch of bananas on his head and holding a plate of ground corn. The last frame in the third row shows the exterior of the wooden building where the hostages are being kept. At the front door stands an armed guard who is flanked by two hand-painted signs, apparently meant to throw off any suspicion of its use as a rebel hideout or a relic of the building's former use by Batista forces: (on the left) "Viva Batista y su ejército," (on the right) "La razón La justicia La tiene Batista."
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 June
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 760
Image Count:
1
Description:
These images document the release of United States hostages taken and held by Raúl Castro's forces in June and July of 1958. Frame 13 appears to show two of the hostages as their rebel guard informs them of the helicopter's arrival and subsequent frame depicts their farewells with the rebels and departure.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 761
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images showing Fidel Castro as he leaves an impromptu meeting with Herbert Matthews and his wife Nancie (row one) in the days following the fall of the Batista government and the triumph of revolutionary forces. Subsequent images show events taking place at a military base littered with empty wooden boxes of ammunition (frames 23 and 24) and housing a number of military planes, a tank and trucks. Fidel Castro appears in bottom three rows with unidentified guerrillas speaking to uniformed members of Batista's airforce as they all squat or kneel on the ground. Frame 34 shows three unidentified guerrilla officers with a man wearing a white guayabera and linen pants. See also Prints 32 and 34.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1960 May
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 7, folder 763
Image Count:
1
Description:
The top three rows and bottom two rows show images of an unidentified man smoking a cigar and sitting at his desk in an office. Frames 33-37 show the same man examining a newspaper on a podium-style desk with a large salon in the background. This appears to form part of a large newspaper office, for its size, possibly Diario de la Marina, which was housed in a large building on Prado, directly facing the Capitolio. This was the first national newspaper to be occupied by militias loyal to the government and nationalized for supporting counterrevolutionary activities in May of 1960. See also Contact Book 9.
