Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak into a microphone as an unidentifed white female fiddler player and double bass...

African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an...

African American and white students sit in rows of chairs in an auditorium watching Claude "Fiddler" Williams speak as an unidentifed white female fiddle player and double bass player, and an...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage and speaks into a microphone as he holds his fiddle with both hands and hangs his bow from his left hand. An unidentified white male keyboard player's face is...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on stage speaking into a microphone as he holds his fiddle and bow waist high during the Merging Generations Concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Wood paneled walls...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands arm-in-arm with an unidentified white man and smile at the camera inside of the Topeka Performing Arts Center in Topeka, Kansas before the Topeka Jazz Festival.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins as he stands beside an unidentified white male fiddler. Both grin at the camera. The angle of the shot is from the floor in front of them and up toward the ceiling...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant stage area with his fiddle tucked under his left arm and smiles at the camera. Three other unidentified white male band members are in the stage area...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he stands in a break room inside the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri; a bottle of white wine on the counter next to the toaster. He wears a tuxedo...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams intertwines his fingers as he stands in front of a large illustrated graphic of New York tourist sites from a bird's eye view. He wears a fedora hat. A small bird's eye view...

A photograph of the Garage Band at Kim Park's white brick house. Farthest to the left, a cooler sits next to an amplifier and Russ Long seated and playing a keyboard. Just behind Russ and partially...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams intertwines his fingers as he stands in next to a large illustrated graphic of New York tourist sites from a bird's eye view. A large floral arrangement sits on a table in...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from his left side, holds his fiddle across his body as he stands on stage in front of a juke box and behind a microphone. A drum set is on the left side of the photograph...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands with friends and family in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri during the Merging Generations concert. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. The...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind a seated audience member, stands sideways to the stage to smile at the camera; his fiddle tucked under his right arm. An unidentified white male pianist sits and...

The Statesmen of Jazz perform on stage in Boca Raton, Florida on May 16, 2000. The date, "5 16 '00"," is imprinted on the lower right-hand of the photograph by the camera. Eddie Higgins sits and plays...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams concentrates as he tries out a Mark Wood Viper violin while John Blake provides accompaniment by playing the piano at the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Conference in San Diego...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he stands holding a plate of food and balancing a beverage on the plate. He stands next to a desk at the Northeast neighborhood organization in Kansas City...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles and waves as he stands between the stair cases outside of the Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 SE 8th Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. The marquis reads, "PRESENTS TOPEKA...

An African American male guitarist leans over and smiles, as he holds the neck of a guitar, to be included in a photograph with Claude "Fiddler" Williams who sits and holds his fiddle by the neck...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands outside of the mess hall with a young white girl who is attending the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee. He puts his arm...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a white teenage girl sit side-by-side grinning at the camera as they sit in possibly a mess hall at a fiddler camp. Claude wears a "St. Louis Church" t-shirt under a...

In the glow of a light hanging from a tent or awning covering the stage, Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands sideways to the camera drawing his bow across the strings of his fiddle as he share the stage...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, fiddle, and Spencer Barefield, jazz guitar, sit beside Dan Pliskow, double bass, as they perform from the corner of a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand in the middle of another couple and smile for a photograph in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri, during the Merging...