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Blanche Williams and Sherman Sharpe, Jr. of the Harlequin Café

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Blanche Williams stands among the restaurant's tables with the chef of the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). A wall...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams holds a jack-o-lantern

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Blanche Williams stands outdoors with a big grin on her face as she holds a jack-o-lantern. She wears a denim jumpsuit. A demolished building spreads...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams shows a bird decoration

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Blanche Williams stands by a double window gesturing towards a bird decoration and smiling at the camera. A carved cabinet is behind her with African...

Date Published
January-12-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits at a dining table

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Blanche Williams sits sideways in her chair while she talks at a dining table with a glass of juice and a calculator sitting on the placemat on the...

Date Published
September-25-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits in the Blue Room

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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...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits on the floor in front of the Christmas tree

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Blanche Williams sits on the floor with wall-to-wall carpet and leans on one hand in front of a decorated Christmas tree. An antique chair is next to...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits sideways in the passenger seat of a red vehicle with her legs out of the door

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Blanche Williams sits sideways in the passenger seat with her legs out of the door of a red vehicle with a red interior and white seats. She looks...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams sits sideways in the passenger seat of a red vehicle with her legs out of the door looking toward the back of the car

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Blanche Williams sits sideways in the passenger seat with her legs out of the door of a red vehicle with a red interior and white seats. She looks...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams smiles while holding a bouquet of red roses

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Blanche Williams smiles at the camera as she holds a large bouquet of long-stemmed roses with greenery and babies' breath. A china cabinet is behind...

Date Published
May-13-2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams stands by a body of water

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Blanche Williams stands outdoors against a cement wall between a body of water and a sidewalk and smiles at the camera while her right hand rests on...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams stands by an illustrated graphic art

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Blanche Williams stands in next to a large illustrated graphic art piece of New York tourist sites from a bird's eye view. A large floral arrangement...

Date Published
October-13-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams stands in front of a limousine that is in front of The New York Times

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Blanche Williams stands on the sidewalk in New York City and grins at the camera as a white limousine is parked behind her. A bus advertising The New...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams walks behind a red Cadillac with a white top

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Blanche Williams walks behind a red Cadillac with a white roof. The license plate might say "Fouse." A person is mostly out of the photograph on the...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Blanche Williams' husband, Claude "Fiddler" Williams

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In a double photograph, Claude "Fiddler" Williams' promotional photograph on the left of him holding up his fiddle with the body on a table he is...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand on either side of A. Spencer Barefield IV

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams stand on either side of 14-year-old A. Spencer Barefield IV. The tops of their heads are out of the top...

Date Published
April-14-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams at the Levee, sitting with his wife, Blanche

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams takes a break from performing at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, by sitting at a table with...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams enjoying himself in the Blue Room

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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...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams signs an autograph at his 93rd birthday celebration

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On the occasion of Claude "Fiddler" Williams' 93rd birthday celebration, he signs an autograph for an unidentified African American woman who bends...

Date Published
February-19-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands with friends and family

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands with friends and family in the lobby of the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri during the Merging...

Date Published
June-16-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador...

Date Published
July-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams, and Bryan Hicks

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams, and Bryan Hicks sitting left to right at the Levee Bar & Grill on 43rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri...

Date Published
1991
1995
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams, and Buck O'Neil visit in front of a food truck

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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...

Date Published
September-29-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Series of three photographs of Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Blanche Williams blowing up modeling balloons

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In a series of three photographs, Claude "Fiddler" Williams blows up a modeling balloon as he is in a big crowd. Blanche Williams blows up a modeling...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection
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Member of

  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (21)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (1)

Types

  • (-) photographs (23)

Genres

  • Color photographs (20)
  • Portrait photographs (13)
  • Group portraits (8)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (2)

Subjects

  • African American women (22)
  • Musicians' spouses (22)
  • African American jazz musicians (10)
  • African American men (10)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Fiddlers (9)
  • Music fans (3)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Music audiences (2)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Baseball players (1)
  • Blues festivals (1)
  • Bouquets (1)
  • Bow ties (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Cooks (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Jack-o-lanterns (1)
  • Jazz festivals (1)
  • Limousines (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Negro leagues (1)
  • Pictures (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Racially mixed children (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Violinists (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • Detroit (Mich.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • St. Louis (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (10)
  • Barefield, A. Spencer IV (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Hall, Regina (1)
  • Hicks, Bryan (1)
  • O'Neil, Buck, 1911-2006 (1)
  • Pearson, Al (1)
  • Sharpe, Sherman, Jr., 1955- (1)
  • (-) Williams, Blanche Fouse (23)

Events

  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (6)
  • 1995 (4)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1990 (3)
  • 2001-02-19 (3)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1999-06-16 (1)
  • 1999-09-25 (1)
  • 1999-10-13 (1)
  • 2000-05-13 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2001-01-12 (1)
  • 2001-04-13 (1)
  • 2001-04-14 (1)
  • 2001-09-29 (1)
  • 2004 (1)

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