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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.