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Top frames document a student rally on the Escalinata (entrance steps) of the University of Havana. Along the speakers' platform a banner appears with the words "Mes del Recinto" (Month of the Campus). Probably taken in November of 1959 when the university was undergoing the first phase of revolutionary reforms that would initially purge all professors with a history of batistiano allegiance from the campus and eventually end the autonomy of the university from state intervention by the fall of the following year. In frames 7 and 8, it is possible to make out the central figure of Fidel Castro as he addresses the crowd. Bottom frames show images of a car race held at the Ciudad Deportiva, probably taken in February of 1960 when St. George included similar images in a series of photographs taken forTime magazine that focused on the visit of a pair of honeymooners from New York and the apparent decline of international tourism in Cuba following the simultaneous visit of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan. See also Prints 31, 36, 48; for other images of car racing at the Ciudad Deportiva, see Book VII.

Unidentified Cuban man wearing a business suit and speaking on a street in Centro Habana with the man wearing glasses who appears in Prints 33, 78, 81, 82, and 86. See also Prints 78, 81, 82 and 86.

Images showing bride Emma Castro and groom Victor Lomerdi Delgado in the midst of the wedding ceremony and Catholic mass, on a kneeler. To the side is her brother, Prime Minister Fidel Castro Ruz, and other government officials, including President Osvaldo Dorticós and Juan Almeida Bosque, chief of the Cuban Air Force at the time.

Images of a demonstration by members of Acción Católica, supported by various Catholic priests who stand at the margins of the demonstration held at Havana's Central Park around the statue of José Martí. These images were probably taken in March of 1960, following conflicts between Catholic-led student protests over the visit of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan that February. See also Prints 34 and 41.

Top images show a demonstration by members of Acción Católica, supported by various Catholic priests, at the Parque Central, probably taken in March of 1960, following conflicts between Catholic-led student protests over the visit of Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan that February. Bottom four rows of frames show images of the press conference held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana with visiting French philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. For more images of this Catholic-led demonstration, see Prints 34 and 40; for more images of the de Beauvoir-Sartre visit, see Prints 43, 44, 47, and 48.

Images of the Soviet exposition held at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana and inaugurated on February 5, 1960, by Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan. For more images of this series, see Book VII.

Press conference held at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana with visiting French philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Bottom frames show a crowd on El Prado outside a television studio that is seen next door to the Asociación Canaria de Cuba. A number of male, uniformed militiamen survey the crowd while another group of police, at least one of whom appears female, look on from one of the side walls of El Prado. See also Prints 44, 47 and 48.

Close-ups of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the press conference held at the Hotel Nacional in the first days of their visit to Cuba. See also Prints 43, 47 and 48.

Landing of two unidentified helicopters at the landing platform directly across from El Morro fortress at the entrance to the Bay of Havana. One of the helicopters carries an unidentified foreigner with light-colored hair, also featured in frame 24 of Print 35, who is seen being greeted by a gathering crowd of Cubans. Bottom frames of the print show street scenes of carnival dancers, taken in February of 1960, on El Prado in downtown Havana. See also Print 35; for images of 1960 Carnival, see Book VII.

Images of crowds gathered near the corner of San Rafael Boulevard and El Prado around two signs, one posted by the Partido Socialista Popular and the other apparently anonymous, both urging support for the Revolution.