Archive of 18 original photographs of Cuban poet Angel Augier with Gabriel García Márquez, Charlie Chaplin, Rafael Alberti, Fidel Castro, and other personalities.

a) 2 b/w photos (18x12.5 and 14x9) of Augier delivering a speech before the tomb of José Martí in the IV Congreso Nacional de Historia, Santiago de Cuba 1945, accompanied by other Cuban intellectuals. b) 2 b/w photos (14x21) of Augier with Charlie Chaplin. In 1952 Augier who was visiting Paris, heard that Chaplin was staying in the Ritz. Although his request for an interview was initially denied, he waylaid the actor in the lobby of the hotel, and managed to ask a few questions before Chaplin was hurried away by his secretary. The interview was published in the Cuban magazine Bohemia. c) SIM (Servicio de Inteligencia Militar - Batista's secret political police) mugshot of Angel Augier Proenza Comunista. 1950s. d) b/w photo (23.5x18) of Augier with Fidel Castro, dated on the verso II Congreso UNEAC 1977. e) 2 b/w portrait photos (17.5x23) of Angel Augier; stamp of Prensa Latina. Servicio Fotográfico on verso, no date, 1970s. f) b/w photograph (12x18) of poster advertising the presentation of Augier's book 'Poesía 1928-1978.' g) b/w photo of Augier with the Cuban critic José Antonio Portuondo during the presentation of Augier's 'Prosa Varia', 1982. h) b/w photo (18.5x24) of Augier at the Conferencia Internacional sobre Literatura Cubana de la Revolución, La Habana 1985. i) b/w photo of Augier with the Columbian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, January 1986. j) 2 photos (1 b/w 20.5x25.5, 1 colour 15x10) of Augier with Spanish poet Rafael Alberti in Segovia, Spain, March 1994. k) 4 photos (colour 15x10, and b/w 12x9) of Augier with Canadian and Cuban intellectuals, 1990s to 2000. Ángel Augier Proenza. (Central Santa Lucía, 1910 - La Habana, 2010), was a poet and critic who was imprisoned and exiled for his communist militancy. After the Revolution he bacame vice president of the UNEAC, the powerful official union of artists and writers. He was a close friend of (almost a Boswell to) the poet Nicolás Guillén, and published an important study of his work.