Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen plays the alto saxophone outdoors by Charlie Parker's gravesite with a white man playing a tenor saxophone behind and to his right. A crowd of mostly white men and women and one African...

Blanche Williams looks to the left side of the photograph as she speaks to someone who out of the photograph. She sits in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of...

Todd Bolton smiles and stands by the seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Claude turns his head to the right to smile at the camera. Claude's violin case is open on the table in front him. There are...

Todd Bolton smiles and stands by the seated Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Claude turns his head to the right to smile at the camera. Claude's violin case is open on the table in front him. There are...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits at a table on the lower level of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri on the left side of the photograph with...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind the stage, stands and plays his fiddle as he performs for patrons at round tables with white tablecloths. There are only beverages on the tables. An unidentified...

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 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...

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

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs his autograph on a white bowler hat with a black hatband for an unidentified man who stands next to the table in the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in Kansas...

On the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration, he signs an autograph for an unidentified African American woman who bends toward him as he sits at a table in the Blue Room in...

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 two other unidentified African American men outside of a stone park shelter in a park. The man in the middle wears a Kappa Alpha Psi ball cap.

A few seated audience members are waiting for the Statesmen of Jazz concert to begin in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Swing & Jazz Preservation Society of Florida, Inc. on May 16, 2000. A white boy is...

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...

Five fans of jazz music sit at the bar of the Blue Room in the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri. The date, "2 16 '03," is imprinted by the camera on the...

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 fiddler, a mandolin player wearing a cowboy hat, and a guitar player, stand on a stage behind microphones and perform. A keyboard and a blue drum set are behind them on stage. The backs of the heads...

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...

Richard Ross stands and smiles out at the audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as he performs with an unidentified drummer, double bass player, and a keyboard...

School children are filing out of the aisles of seats toward the back of the performance hall. Two unidentified white women, one seated, one standing, are also preparing to leave the Statesmen of Jazz...

Students in the auditorium of a school, applaud a performance. Some students stand while others remain seated. A balcony in the back of the auditorium has students holding up a banner that is only...

A seated audience at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, claps along enthusiastically at a concert of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and a band who are out of the photograph.

Todd Bolton looks over at a photograph that Claude "Fiddler" Williams is looking at and holding in his hands as they sit at a table in a kitchen setting. A white amaryllis flower sits on the table...

Todd Bolton looks down at a paper he is writing on as he sits at a table by Claude "Fiddler" Williams who is looking at a photograph. They are in a kitchen setting. A white amaryllis flower sits on...