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Cast of "The Brush Creek Follies"

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All white cast of "The Brush Creek Follies." Group portrait of 33 individuals on stage with barn scene backdrop. Kit and Kay center front row in large...

Date Published
1938
1942
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Cast of "The Brush Creek Follies"

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All white cast of "The Brush Creek Follies." Group portrait of 24 individuals on stage with barn scene backdrop. Seven holding instruments including...

Date Published
1938
1942
Member of
Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection

Charlie Gabriel grabs the hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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Charlie Gabriel holds his saxophone with his right hand as he grabs the right hand of Claude "Fiddler" Williams with his left hand. Charlie turns his...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and others performing

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams is playing his fiddle on the farthest right-hand side of the photograph. Spencer Barefield, jazz guitarist, Marcus Belgrave...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams entertains along with others

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Left to right: Big Bill Bissonnette, trombone, from his right side; Jerome "Scrooge" Harris, drums, looking down and wearing a hat; Charlie Gabriel...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams gets the microphone next

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in the center of a school auditorium stage performing on his fiddle. Marcus Belgrave walks toward Claude with a...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays with a band on a stage in a school auditorium

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A drum set on the left side of the photograph is too dark to see the drummer; likely Jerome Harris. Dan Pliskow, double bass player, looks left toward...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Collaboration

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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...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Dan Pliskow speaks with Spencer Barefield and Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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The double bass player, Dan Pliskow's, back is to the camera as he speaks with Spencer Barefield, the jazz guitarist. Claude "Fiddler" Williams...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Junior Volunteers seated with family

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Junior Volunteers and some family members seated in auditorium seats watching part of the recognition program. Hospital CEO Lawrence McAndrews is also...

Date Published
September-01-1987
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Junior Volunteers seated with family

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Junior Volunteers and some family members seated in auditorium seats watching part of the recognition program. Hospital CEO Lawrence McAndrews is also...

Date Published
September-01-1987
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Marcus Belgrave uses the microphone as most of the band plays

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Marcus Belgrave, trumpet, points at the audience that is not in the photograph and speaks or sings into a microphone he holds with his other hand...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Marcus, Claude, and Bill stand together for a photograph as others look on

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A photographer stands and bends over a camera from the stage up behind the jazz band on the auditorium floor of a school. Dan Pliskow, double bass...

Date Published
April-08-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Sound check

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A man wearing a sweater and ball cap, has his back to the camera as he stands on the auditorium floor in front of the stage possibly setting up a...

Date Published
April-10-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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  • Men, White

Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (10)
  • Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection (2)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (14)

Genres

  • Group portraits (12)
  • Color photographs (10)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Reproductions (2)
  • Snapshots (2)

Time Periods

  • 1931-1940 (2)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1981-1990 (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (10)
  • African American men (10)
  • Double bassists (10)
  • Fiddlers (10)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Jazz musicians, White (10)
  • Guitarists (8)
  • Saxophonists (8)
  • Trumpet players (7)
  • Schools (6)
  • Trombonists (6)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • African American women (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Award presentations (2)
  • Chief executive officers (2)
  • Country musicians (2)
  • Hospital administrators (2)
  • Musical groups (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Radio programs, Musical (2)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American teenage boys (1)
  • Blackface entertainers (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • (-) Auditoriums (14)
  • (-) Men, White (14)

Subjects, People

  • Pliskow, Dan, 1923-2015 (10)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (10)
  • Gabriel, Charlie, 1932- (9)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer (8)
  • Belgrave, Marcus (7)
  • Harris, Isaac Jerome (4)
  • BIssonette, Big Bill (3)
  • Colorado Pete, 1909-1969 (2)
  • McAndrews, Lawrence (2)
  • Edwards, Eddie (Radio performer) (1)

Date Published

  • 2001-04-08 (6)
  • 2001-04-10 (4)
  • 1938 (2)
  • 1942 (2)
  • 1987-09-01 (2)

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