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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Claude "Fiddler" Williams takes a moment to smile at the camera

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, from behind a seated audience member, stands sideways to the stage to smile at the camera; his fiddle tucked under his right arm. An unidentified white male pianist sits and plays a grand piano with the top open on the right side of the photograph. His back is to the camera. He wears a jacket with "The New Reformation Dixieland Band, Saginaw, Michigan," printed on the back. Standing behind Claude and on the left side of the photograph is a white male trombone player, a whte male trumpet player, and a white male saxophone player playing their instruments. Possibly they are warming up before a performance in a large room with tall windows and a vaulted ceiling.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams holds a pipe in his mouth as he sits with a friend

Claude "Fiddler" Williams while sitting at a table wearing casual clothing, leans his head toward the head of an unidentified African American woman who is seating next to him. She grins as he holds a pipe in his mouth with his left hand. He also holds a lit cigarette between his fingers on his left hand. A Shaefer beer can, pack of cigarettes and a backgammon board sit on the table. There are houseplants standing behind them. There is a round electric clock on the wall behind them with decorative rods circling the face.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams plays his fiddle with a piano player in a living room

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a chair playing a fiddle beside a man playing a spinet piano with his back to the camera. The piano player is on the left side of the photograph. The door to the room is behind Claude. An analog television sits on a upholstered table with an equalizer next to it on the right side of the photograph. Baggage lies on the floor in the foreground of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a living room and plays his fiddle

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits on a chair playing his fiddle between a television on an upholstered table and the opened door to the room. There is an equalizer on the table next to the television. Claude smiles at the camera. His baggage sits on the floor beside his feet.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams shakes hands with a dog

Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins as he leans forward in his chair to shake hands with an English Springer Spaniel dog that sits beside Claude. Claude's bag sit on the floor on the other side of the chair from the dog.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands beside a fellow fiddler

Claude "Fiddler" Williams grins as he stands beside an unidentified white male fiddler. Both grin at the camera. The angle of the shot is from the floor in front of them and up toward the ceiling. Claude has spilled on his suit. The other fiddler wears a colorful vest of various embroidered stripes. A wedding picture and a hunting horn hang on the wall on the right side of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes as he plays with a piano play in a living room

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes tight and crosses his leg as he sits in a chair playing a fiddle. Beside him is an unidentified white man playing a spinet piano with his back and side to the camera. A Budweiser beer sits on the piano. Music stands with music on them and the door to the room are behind Claude. A pair of white male hands with the fingers intertwined are on the left side of the photograph.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0147
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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