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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Claude "Fiddler" Williams and Buddy Tate head into the Monterey Jazz Festival

Buddy Tate sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at a restaurant table and grin at the camera.
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
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Putting a leaf in the table is a group effort

Five unidentified African American women sit and stand around a dining room table putting a leaf in the center of the table. The woman farthest on the right side of the photograph turns her head to look at the camera with an unsupported cigarette in her mouth as her hands are moving to pull the edge of the table toward her. The next woman to the left also holds a cigarette just in her mouth as she holds two plates of food; one in each hand. She looks back and down at a woman sitting at the table motion toward the leaf with one hand as she holds a drinking glass in her other hand. A woman bends over the table putting in the leaf. The woman farthest to the left side of the photograph stands at the other end of the table to help pull it open for the leaf. A china cabinet is against the wall behind the table.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-225.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Couple share as they stand on a bridge

An unidentified African American man and woman stand on a white bridge over a body of water and share something from a plastic cup. The woman, leaning against the railing of the bridge, looks up and smiles at the camera as she dips the fingers of her right hand into the cup that the man is holding. He looks down at the cup. He holds a stack of empty cups with brochures rolled up inside with his other hand.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Couple sit together on a glider seat outdoors in a back yard

An unidentified African American man and woman sit on a double glider chair outdoors in a backyard as they look up at the camera and smile. He holds a black dog with a patch of white between them on both of their laps as she pets the dog. A striped ball is lying on the ground by the glider. A clapboard house is in the background as well as the neighbor's clapboard house.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-229.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams leaves impressions of his handprints for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he kneels outdoors by a frame of cement and pushes his gloved hands into the cement to leave an impression for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame upon the occasion of his induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams handprints in cement

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. Signed below the impressions of his hands, "Claude Fiddler Williams."
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-301.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147