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Bottom frames of the sheet show Raúl Castro, the Chief of Cuba's Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias from October 1959 to the present, giving a speech on national television. Top half of the images show members of the Unidad Femenina Revolucionaria training at the parade grounds of El Morro Fortress, as well as another group of women dressed in civilian clothes being taught how to march by officers of the Fuerzas Armadas. These first militias were trained and organized in November and December, 1959. The pictures are probably taken early in the winter of 1960 when the photographer visited Cuba for a lengthy stay. Also present is a reporter from California where shots of the same uniformed women subsequently appeared in newspapers owned by C.K. McClatchy, the Sacramento Bee, the Modesto Bee and the Fresno Bee. See also Prints 6, 7, and 8.

Unidad Femenina Revolucionaria, one of Cuba's first all-female militias, organized in the closing months of 1959 and shown training on the parade grounds of Havana's El Morro Fortress, facing the Bay of Havana. Some of the images are double-exposed with shots of the arrival of an aircraft at Havana's international airport. The upper half of the sheet contains images of Carlos Rafael Rodríguez's televised appearance on the program "Ante la Prensa." See also Prints 5, 6, 8 and 9.

Photographs of tourists cavorting at the swimming pool of the Hotel Presidente, located on the Avenida de los Presidentes (also known as "G" Street) in el Vedado, Havana, across the street from what is today Cuba's Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MINREX), a banker's former home. Prints 15 and 16 clearly show the monument to Tomás Estrada Palma on the street in front of the pool area of the hotel. Estrada Palma was Cuba's first President, installed in an uncontested election in 1902, held during the first U.S. military occupation of Cuba (1898-1902). This is significant because all monuments to republican-era political figures were desecrated by government order in early 1961. Today, only the pedestal still stands, topped by the statue of Tomás Estrada Palma's bronze shoes, which workers were not able to remove from the base of the pedestal. See also Prints 17 and 35.

Images of Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway at the latter's May 1960 fishing tournament, held in Marina Barlovento, now known as Marina Hemingway, outside of Havana. Fidel Castro won all the principal fishing prizes on that day. See also Prints 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 41, 63 and 64.

Images of Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway at the latter's May 1960 fishing tournament, held in Marina Barlovento, now known as Marina Hemingway, outside of Havana. Fidel Castro won all the principal fishing prizes on that day. See also Prints 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 41, 63 and 64.

Images of Ernest Hemingway with Fidel Castro at Hemingway's fishing tournament held at the Marina Barlovento, now called the Marina Hemingway, in May 1960. Pictured as well is an unidentified U.S. celebrity of the period. See also Prints 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 41.