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Photographic portrait insert of Fidel Castro
Object/Artifact
A small black-and-white photographic print, portrait/vertical format, depicting Fidel Castro against a dark indistinct background, in military-style dress. The print is small, with a glossy reflective surface, and shows curling, surface marks, and edge damage at the upper right. Its scale, format, and wear suggest it was originally mounted as the photographic insert of a personal wearable or carried object — such as a locket, pendant, badge, or commemorative token — from which it has become detached; it now survives as a loose component rather than a complete object.
2025.1.104
Preserved in the Arús Caraballo household.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
circa 1959
Fair
Fidel Castro Ruz
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
preserved
The object documents not only the visual cult surrounding revolutionary figures but the intimate, wearable forms that political memory took in everyday Cuban life.