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Various images of unidentified guerrillas engaged in different tasks. Top frames show a man holding telescopic rifle as he does guard duty at the door of a peasant hut; a guerrilla wearing a cowboy hat and loading a rifle; a guerrilla jubilantly carrying a large native turkey. Second row shows unidentified older man wearing fatigues and engaged in conversation. The third row shows a black guerrilla unloading a bomb from the back of a horse and then carrying the unexploded bomb on his shoulder, probably recovered from Batista's air raids. The final row shows a guerrilla unit on the march through farmlands.

Top frames show guerrillas preparing to launch a mortar from a hillside. The second row depicts a black man and white woman in civilian clothes in the midst of a discussion, possibly related to the radio the man is carrying. Bottom frames show Fidel Castro, Celia Sánchez and other unidentified guerrillas addressing a group of peasants.

Large group of rebels and peasant guides relaxing on the ground in what appears to be company town or large farm which they have recently occupied militarily. Frames 11-13 show a number of buildings in the background as well as flatbed truck. The guerrillas often occupied towns and villages belonging to private companies in the area for several hours at a time in order to demonstrate their power, popular support and control in the region.

Images of two overweight men dressed in civilian clothes, one of whom (wearing glasses and taking notes) appears to be a foreign journalist. The other man, wearing a hat, appears to be a Cuban working in the revolutionary underground. Fidel is lying on a bed while the journalist and the other unidentified man lean onto the top of a closed Singer sewing machine. Top frames also show Fidel Castro with the journalist outside the hut. See also Prints 51, 53 and 61.

Top frames in row one show Fidel Castro from a look-out point in the Sierra Maestra. The last frame in this row shows a coffee farm (with drying beds to the left, behind farm house) in which both rebels and peasants can be seen. The rebels imposed a tax on all coffee produced in the region that they controlled; their presence there may indicate collection of that tax or general cooperation by the farm's owner and workers. The second and third rows of frames show Fidel Castro getting a tooth pulled through the use of a sewing machine; by attaching one end of the cord of the gripping device to the machine's wheel and the other to the unhealthy tooth, the tooth could be extracted more easily. Beginning with frame 12, Celia Sánchez is depicted assisting in the tooth extraction and later sitting near Fidel while both appear to be reading letters.

Fidel Castro leading his guerrilla column on a march along a clearly marked footpath between two farm fields. In the second frame of the top row (no. 15), Fidel hands a blonde peasant boy a Toblerone chocolate bar, a standard provision distributed to the guerrillas through couriers in the revolutionary underground. Duplicate of Print 55.

Frame 1 shows Ernesto "Che" Guevara seated with Manuel Fajardo and Juan Almeida Bosque behind him (left to right). Frames 2 and 3 show Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo standing in profile, by tree, Ciro Redondo, Manuel Fajardo (with large pack) and Che Guevara (seated). Frames 4-7 show Fidel Castro.

Frames 1-2 show the photographer, Andrew St. George. Frames 3-4 show a group of unidentified peasant recruits holding peeled sugar cane stalks and weapons. Sitting at the far left in leather jacket is Victor Boronat, a member of the underground and rebel recruit from Manzanillo, Oriente. Frames 5-6 show Boronat playing guitar for a group of peasant recruits. Directly in front of him with curly hair and beard is Julio Díaz. Man next to him in a black beret is unidentified.