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Commemorative photo album, "Álbum Expedicionarios del Granma"
Object/Artifact
Oblong (landscape) softcover photo album with dark paper-covered wrappers, the front blocked in green/gold: the title "ÁLBUM EXPEDICIONARIOS DEL GRANMA" with a star-and-crescent motif above a line illustration of the yacht Granma. Bound at the left edge with two metal eyelet posts. The interior opens with a title page, "Expedición y Desembarco del 'Granma'," carrying summary data — departure Tuxpan, México, 25 Nov 1956; arrival Playas "Las Coloradas," 2 Dec 1956, Oriente; crew 82 men; boat length 62 ft; crossing 7 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes; "Jefatura y Dirección: Fidel Castro Ruz"; "Prohibida la reproducción." The facing page notes that the album's proceeds would fund a mausoleum (panteón) for the Granma martyrs, beside a circular ink stamp "OPERACIÓN GRANMA / EJECUTIVO / HABANA" with the Cuban arms. The leaves carry black-and-white portrait photographs of the expedition members, opening with the fallen.
2025.15.1
2025.15
circa 1960
1960s
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Maker/Publisher: Publisher not named (sine nomine); produced in Havana for the "Operación Granma" memorial/fundraising campaign. (Some recorded copies are signed by Norberto Collado, the Granma's helmsman — not confirmed for this copy.)
Cover title and Granma illustration; interior title-page expedition data; "Prohibida la reproducción"; "Jefatura y Dirección: Fidel Castro Ruz"; circular stamp "Operación Granma / Ejecutivo / Habana."
Materials: Paper-covered board wrappers; paper leaves; metal post/eyelet binding; black-and-white photographic (halftone) reproductions; green/gold cover blocking. Technique: Offset/letterpress printing; halftone photo reproduction; eyelet-post binding; ink/foil-blocked cover.
Poor
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
preservation
Granma's landing
An early-revolutionary souvenir/fundraising album commemorating the Granma expedition — the November 1956 voyage of 82 members of the 26th of July Movement (including Fidel and Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, and Camilo Cienfuegos) from Tuxpan, Mexico, that landed at Playa Las Coloradas and helped ignite the Cuban Revolution. Proceeds were to be dedicated to a mausoleum for the fallen ("mártires del Granma"); the album presents individual portraits of the expeditionaries, opening with the dead. The Granma Memorial was inaugurated in 1976.