Cuba : pre- and post revolution photographic collection 1957-1968

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Cuba : pre- and post revolution photographic collection 1957-1968

This collection contains photos of pre- and post-Revolution Cuba, including nightclub performers in Havana (1957) and 1960?s portraits of Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

1 box containing 4 black and white photographs (8 x 10 in. or smaller)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404445

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Salas, Osvaldo, 1914-

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Guevara, Che, 1928-1967

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Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016

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Fidel Castro (b. August 13, 1926, Birán, Cuba–d. November 25, 2016, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. The son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imper...