Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams turns his head to look at the camera as he stands in front of a food truck with his wife, Blanche, smiling and standing in the center between him and Buck O'Neil. Buck smiles...

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...

The Claude Williams Combo arrange themselves in front of an opened grand piano and smile at the camera. The unidentified African American male pianist on the left side of the photograph leans toward...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, on the right side of the photograph stands sideways to the audience to look back at Dan Pliskow, double bassist, and the guitarist, Spencer Barefield, as Claude plays his...

An unidentified African American man and woman stand on a white bridge over a body of water and share something from a plastic cup. The woman, leaning against the railing of the bridge, looks up and...

An unidentified African American man and woman sit on a double glider chair outdoors in a backyard as they look up at the camera and smile. He holds a black dog with a patch of white between them on...

Dan Pliskow, double bass, sits on a tall stool and plucks the string of his bass as he sits next to a baby grand piano that has no lid in a barista bar, Columbine's Champagne Cellar at the Harlequin...

The double bass player, Dan Pliskow's, back is to the camera as he speaks with Spencer Barefield, the jazz guitarist. Claude "Fiddler" Williams listens with his hands in his pockets and his fedora hat...

Students have left their seats and gather around the floor in front of the stage to smile as they look up and have an encounter with David "Fathead" Newman, David's back is to the camera as he bends...

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 looks down at...

Eddie Saunders, saxophonist, and Claude "Fiddler" Williams stand in the lobby of an art gallery and smile at the camera. Eddie's left arm is around the shoulders of Claude as they shake hands. Claude...

Eddie Saunders, holding a saxophone, opens his mouth in surprise at Lisa Henry, jazz singer, who is mostly obscured by Ida McBeth, jazz singer. Ida sits on a tall stool looking away from the camera...

Everette Devan smiles as he sits on a step of a stoop with his fingers intertwined and his elbows resting on this thighs. A Budweiser beer can and a bundled up napkin sit on the step below him between...

The Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri is full of fans of jazz music on the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams 93rd birthday celebration...

The audience (both white people and African Americans) sits at tables or stands at museum exhibits in a crowded Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City...

A group of five white men and one woman string players join Claude "Fiddler" Williams on stage in a performance. Two fiddler players stand to the left side of the photograph. A guitarist sits next to...

Double bassist Aaron Bell sits on a stool on the left side of the photograph and looks up at Claude "Fiddler" Williams across the stage, as he plucks the strings of the bass. Guitarist Ted Dunbar sits...

In a photograph up from the floor in front of the stage at JJ's Restaurant, 910 West 48th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, to the stage, Frank Smith, on the left side of the photograph, sits behind a...

In a photograph from the side of the stage, at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, Claude "Fiddler" Williams bends toward the audience on the edge of the stage playing his...

Lisa Henry, jazz singer, is mostly out of the left side of the photograph clapping her hands to the music of Gerald Dunn playing the tenor saxophone, Tyrone Clark playing the double bass, and Chris...