Buddy Tate sits next to Claude "Fiddler" Williams at a restaurant table and grin at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-279.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-189.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-190.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he stands holding a plate of food and balancing a beverage on the plate. He stands next to a desk at the Northeast neighborhood organization in Kansas City, Missouri, with an unidentified white woman sitting there and smiling at the camera. A poster behind her partially reads, "Historic Northeast." There are many posters on the walls with photos of home and boxes of snacks. She has a bouquet of flowers on her desk and a plant with a decorative bow on a stack of boxes. The date, "10 16 '99," is imprinted by the camera on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-193.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he stands in a break room inside the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri; a bottle of white wine on the counter next to the toaster. He wears a tuxedo. Behind him on the counter is a microwave oven. A piece of artwork hangs on the wall behind him signed, "Millner '92." It is a representation of a glass paned cabinet with books on the top shelf, a guitar and drum on the middle shelf, and a violin, flute, and a jar on the bottom shelf.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-200.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-210.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-215.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-221.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-224.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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
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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-226.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
An unidentified white man wearing a sun hat begins to close the back door of a mini van with his back to the camera as two other unidentified white men start toward the other side of the van to load up. Claude "Fiddler" Williams, standing behind the group, bends and reaches forward to take his fiddle from the hand of the man in front of him. An unidentified African American teenage boy stands on the sidewalk with a backpack watching Claude take the fiddle.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-227.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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
Claude "Fiddler" Williams intertwines his fingers as he stands in next to a large illustrated graphic of New York tourist sites from a bird's eye view. A large floral arrangement sits on a table in front of the picture. He wears a fedora hat. Art deco floor lamps stand on either side of the large graphic. The graphic has a black marble frame and 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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-172.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
Claude "Fiddler" Williams intertwines his fingers as he stands in front of a large illustrated graphic of New York tourist sites from a bird's eye view. He wears a fedora hat. A small bird's eye view graphic of the New York skyline is on the left side of the photograph. Art deco floor lamps stand on either side of the large graphic. The graphic has a black marble frame and 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
File: umkc_lsc_williams-claude_photo-173.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0147
