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Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand

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Description: One proof sheet, with 17 black and white images. 15 January 1981. For 8x10 prints, see S 1577, Box 17, folder 126.
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Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand

Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children

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Description: Two proof sheets with 57 black and white images, plus negatives. 15 January 1981.
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Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow

Date: 1980-03
Description: Four black and white prints. Moses Williams was originally from Mississippi. He moved to Florida in the 1950s. He played the diddly bow, a one-string homemade musical instrument, also called a "yakkedy board." Information on the instrument and on Moses Williams may be found in the folder. A recording of the performance can be found in S 1576, box 3, cassette C80-6.
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Moses Williams playing the diddley bow

Moses Williams playing the diddly bow

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Description: Seven black and white prints. See also proof sheets in S 1577, Box 17, folder 116. (P81-116)
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Moses Williams playing the diddly bow

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Date: 1980-03-09
Description: This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project. Some tracks were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Murray were copied from T83-62 & T83-63, recorded March 9, 1980. Tracks by Williams were copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978.
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Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Date: 1978
Description: This audiocassette tape was composed of selections from field recordings for the North Florida Folklife Project. Some tracks were featured on the Florida Folklife Program's compilation of African American musical traditions throughout Florida, Drop on Down in Florida. The tracks by Brown & N. L. Williams are copied from T78-326 & T78-327, recorded May 28, 1978; tracks by Fletcher & Blackwelder are copied from T78-322 & T78-323, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Moses Williams are copied from T78-321, recorded April 22, 1978; tracks by Richard Williams are copied from T78-328 & T78-329, recorded May 27, 1978 (except "Travel the Whole World Around," copied from T83-66, recorded March 16, 1980).
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Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Date: 1977-11-27
Description: One reel to reel recording. Williams was born 15 February 1919 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. After traveling with several acts in the 1930s/1940s, he moved to Florida to work the citrus groves. He always played the diddly bow, a one-string instrument played throughout that south that functioned as a primitive guitar. Moses talked about playing the diddly (for this recording, he hung a broom wire from the wall); performing with Sonny Boy Williams; and his life history. He played several songs. NOTE: According to the depositor's agreement, any commercial use of this recording must be cleared by Moses Williams or Dwight Devane.
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Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Date: 1978-04-22
Description: Two reel to reel recordings. Williams was born 15 February 1919 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. After traveling with several acts in the 1930s/1940s, he moved to Florida to work the citrus groves. He always played the diddly bow, a one-string instrument played throughout that south that functioned as a primitive guitar. Moses talked about his songs; professional nicknames; the music business; working for the Silas Green Traveling Show as a clown; how he wrote his songs; performing on Beale Street in Memphis; and the history of blues music. In addition, Williams plays several of his songs. (The reels T81-16 and T81-17 may be a duplicate recording of this interview.)
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Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Date: 1980-03-11
Description: One reel to reel recording. Moses Williams was originally from Mississippi. He moved to Florida in the 1950s. He played the diddly bow, a one-string homemade musical instrument, also called a yakedy board.
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Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Date: 1980-03-11
Description: One reel to reel recording. Moses Williams was originally from Mississippi. He moved to Florida in the 1950s. He played the diddly bow, a one-string homemade musical instrument, also called a "yakkedy board." Images from this performance can be found in S 1577, box 17, folder 78 (along with more information on the diddly bow). More from this field recording session can be found in S 1576, box 3, C80-6; and T81-15.
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Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand	Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand	Still Image	Diddly bow African Americans Musical instruments Music Performers Performing arts Citrus fruit industry Stores, retail Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children	Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children	Still Image	Diddly bow African Americans Music String instruments Children Performing arts Performers Musical instruments Singers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Moses Williams playing the diddley bow	Moses Williams playing the diddley bow	Still Image	African Americans Musical instruments Blues (Music) Music Diddly bow String instruments Material culture Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
Moses Williams playing the diddly bow	Moses Williams playing the diddly bow	Still Image	Diddly bow Musical instruments Music String instruments Blues (Music) African Americans Performers Performing arts Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg
a_s1576_04_c80-020	Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project	Sound	Music--Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Diddley bows	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_03_c80-002	Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project	Sound	Music -- Performance Field recordings African Americans Blues (Music) Diddley bows Old-time music Fiddle tunes Gospel music Religious songs Rural blues Banjo music Folk music -- United States	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t77-300	Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams	Sound	Interviewing Interviews Music performance Blues (Music) African Americans Diddly bow String instruments Life histories Oral histories Personal experience narratives Guitarist Blues singers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t78-320	Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams	Sound	Interviewing Interviews Music performance Blues (Music) African Americans Diddly bow String instruments Life histories Oral histories Personal experience narratives Minstrel shows Clowns Traveling shows Guitarist Blues singers Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_t81-015	Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams	Sound	Fieldwork African Americans Blues (Music) Performing arts Music performance Singing Guitar music Guitarists String instruments Interviews Oral histories Life histories Harmonica music Singers Musicians Harmonica players Blues singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_t83-086	Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams	Sound	Fieldwork African Americans Blues (Music) Performing arts Music performance Singing Guitar music Guitarists String instruments Interviews Oral histories Life histories Singers Musicians Blues singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand

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Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children

Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow

Moses Williams playing the diddly bow

Moses Williams playing the diddly bow

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

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Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand

Moses Williams playing at a fruit stand

Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children

Moses Williams playing diddly bow for children

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow

Moses Williams playing the diddly bow

Moses Williams playing the diddly bow

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings by Emmett Murray & Moses Williams from the Florida Record Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Compilation of recordings from the North Florida Folklife Project

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview and music performance with blues singer Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams

Interview with and music performance by blues musician Moses Williams