Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams rests his right foot on a low brick wall and leans his left elbow on his bent knee as he smiles into the camera for a publicity photograph. He stands in a park-like setting...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands and smiles at the camera as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a publicity photograph.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams from his right side, smiles as he draws the bow across the strings of his fiddle. He wears a tuxedo and bow tie. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Claude "Fiddler"...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams from his left side, smiles forward as he holds his fiddle waist high with his left hand. A open lid of a grand piano is behind and in front of him.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table wearing a light-colored tuxedo with a bow tie and a boutonniere. He holds out his left hand and smiles as if he's telling a story. His right hand rests on the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins at the camera as someone holds his 95th birthday cake in front of his chest. The date, "2 11 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, stands and smiles holding his fiddle as an unidentified white woman stands beside him presenting him with a birthday cake celebrating his 95th...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, with his side to the camera, speaks to someone across the stage that is out of the photograph as an unidentified white woman stands beside him presenting him with a birthday...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and an unidentified white man stand in front of a sculpted bust of President George Washington in the White House in Washington, D.C. as Claude has been presented with the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends forward in an easy chair to point at the Santa Claus head that is embroidered on the side of his sock. The words "Ho Ho Ho" are knitted into the sock. He turns his head...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits a bit sideways in a folding chair jamming with two seated, unidentified white male guitarists. Someone stands on the left side of the photograph mostly out of the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends slightly to the right as he plays his fiddle with an amplification cord from the fiddle to the power source on the floor. A grand piano is behind him with the pianist...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he kneels outdoors by a frame of cement and pushes his gloved hands into the cement to leave an impression for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame upon the occasion of...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, sits on the edge of an upholstered chair with a quilt cover over it and looks at the camera in a living room setting. He holds his fiddle at an angle in front of his lap...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks at the camera as he sits on a piano bench holding a beverage wrapped in a napkin. An African mask hangs on the wall behind him. Sheet music, a memo, and an electronic...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks at the camera as he stands by a piano holding a beverage wrapped in a napkin. An African mask hangs on the wall behind him. Music, a note, and an electronic metronome...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down as he plays his fiddle. He wears a large-checked suit jacket with wide lapels.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at the strings of his fiddle as he draws his bow across them in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks down at something on the table he is sitting at in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri, on the occasion of...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left side of the photograph. Joe Wilder playing...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left side of the photograph. Joe Wilder playing...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends his knees and smiles as he plays his fiddle at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Larry Holloway plays the double bass behind Claude on...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends deep as he plays his fiddle on stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The double bass player, Larry Holloway, is blurred on the left...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams focuses on his fiddle as he performs at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Ross, singer, stands beside Claude on stage waiting for his...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends deep as he plays his fiddle on stage at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The double bass player, Larry Holloway, is out of the photograph...