Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

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 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...

In a close-up photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and furrows his brow as he draws his bow across his fiddle during a performance. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a microphone held shoulder high with his left hand. An...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles slightly as he plays his fiddle in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles slightly as he plays his fiddle in a close-up photograph. A microphone is on the left side of the photograph.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams has a big grin on his face as he takes a little side step on stage, pumps the fist of his right hand, and holds his bow and fiddle down by his leg with his left hand. Larry...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams looks forward and grins as he prepares to play. He holds his fiddle under his chin and his bow down by his side. The body of a double bass and a hand of the bass player is...

A frame of cement with the handprints pushed into the cement of Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame upon the occasion of his induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes so tight that his face grimaces as he draws his bow across his fiddle in the spotlight of a dark stage. Only his fiddle, his face, and a jazz guitar on the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams while sitting at a table wearing casual clothing, leans his head toward the head of an unidentified African American woman who is seating next to him. She grins as he holds a...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams holds up the keys to a Cadillac Fleetwood that is parked on the street as he stands with his back to 215 and 217 SE 8th Ave, Topeka, Kansas, in front of the Topeka Performing...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes tight as he draws the bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Only the peg box, neck, and upper bout of his fiddle are visible in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph as well as the...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as he pulls the bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, publicity photograph. A publicity photograph of a woman singing is visible...

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 smiles at the camera as he draws his bow across the strings of his fiddle in a close-up, head-shot publicity photograph.

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...