Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Description
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (22 February 1908 - 25 April 2004), violinist and guitarist, was born Claude Gabriel Williams in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Williams enjoyed a great deal of well-deserved acclaim in the twilight of his long jazz career.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Blanche Williams stands by an illustrated graphic art

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 sits on a table in front of the picture. The art is displayed in the center of a wall of mirrors. The date, "10 13 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom left-hand corner.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant with three other band members on the stage performing

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands in a restaurant stage area with his fiddle tucked under his left arm and smiles at the camera. Three other unidentified white male band members are in the stage area also playing their instruments: a keyboard, an electric bass guitar, and a drum set. Plants hang from the ceiling in macrame holders along the wall of windows behind the band. A couple of green and white crepe paper spherical decorations hang from the ceiling above the band.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams holds a jack-o-lantern

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 across the lot behind her.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams sits on the floor in front of the Christmas tree

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 the tree. She wears a denim jumpsuit.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams stands in front of a limousine that is in front of The New York Times

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 York Times is in the next lane.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams sits at a dining table

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 table at her place. A china cabinet, the doorway to the room, and a houseplant are behind her. The date, "9 25 '99"," is imprinted on the lower left-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams sits sideways in the passenger seat of a red vehicle with her legs out of the door

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 seriously down at the camera.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams walks behind a red Cadillac with a white top

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 right side of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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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

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 toward the back of the car.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Blanche Williams stands by a body of water

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 the wall.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Dancing Cobras performing in Old Northeast

The Dancing Cobras, a dance troupe of African American children, perform in the middle of the street in Old Northeast in Kansas City, Missouri.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz stand on stage preparing to perform

An incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz stand on stage getting ready to perform. Only Joe Wilder's head, hands, and horn are visible on the left side of the photograph as he holds his flugelhorn in front of him and enters the stage. Sitting at the back of the stage leaning his double bass back in his lap is Earl May. Standing at the microphones at the front of the stage are Benny Powell, holding his trombone and grinning as he looks down, possibly Oliver Todd holding his trumpet waste high and looking down seriously, and a saxophone player whose face is obscured by the third microphone on the right side of the photograph. Benny Powell stands in front of a drummer sitting at a drum set.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Everette DeVan sits on the stoop enjoying a beer

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 his legs. A wooden patio table sits beside him with a boom box and unidentifiable items on it. A garden hose is rolled flat on the ground beside the table.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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House

A large house on a lot with a chain-link fenced. A three-layer rock wall is between the fence and the sidewalk. A large tree is in the front yard and bushes surround the elevated porch.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Hot backgammon game among friends

One Asian American man and three African Americans smile, greet, and wave hello at the camera as they sit around a table in a living room. A Budweiser beer sits on the table along with a backgammon board and a sugar bowl.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147