Featured 1920-30's Detroit Michigan Stereoviews - Anyone Recognize the Family?

Got a private 15 card stereoview set from Chickering of the Detroit Michigan area. Ive read he was a photographer for Keystone and then did his own thing. Probably late 20's early 30's. I found one other set from Chickering that featured a dog owner and his champion dog. This family was probably somewhat "known" in the area, or well off.

 

I'd think late 1930s, given skirt lengths. And Esquire magazine wasn't founded until 1933. There's a car through the window. Perhaps some clever person can identify. Oh, that could be the April 1938 issue of the magazine in the rack. (Based on the shape the first block of text makes on the right.)

https://classic.esquire.com/issues/1933

Debora

 

The magazine at the front is a Time 1937 issue it seems. https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19370510,00.html

 

Great quality/clarity on those- abt as close to '37 as we'll get.Re 'Time' cover-horse racing was massive back then,can't tell ya how many vintage portraits of 'Man O' War' & 'Seabiscuit' I've seen from that era.
That's a unique set Kronos.

 

The set was probably done for family only, and you scored one that escaped into the wild.

 

May 1937 works for Esquire too.

Debora

 

unless you're in front of a dealership..... car identity can fluctuate wildly ..

 

I suppose you could 'gift' family or friends one,or a set of these cards as a way to stay in touch.Cool-never seen them before.

 

I didn't know they even made stereocards this late. Must have been special order only.

 

And they're not studio portraits. Hard to imagine their purpose.

Debora

 

It appears to be a rather middle class home interior, which seems unlikely for a well-known/well-to-do local family.
The same child appears to be photographed with his parents, a set of grandparents, and a grand- or great-grandmother.
Roydon Chickering seems to have specialized in stereoviews, weirdly I'm not finding any other type of photography by him.

 

Whoa , did they love that kid !!!!!!

 

He's in museum collections. Where did I just see him...? The Getty. And the Hyde Collection.

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/104VSA

https://www.hydecollection.org/

Debora

 

The box they came in:



Very much like what Keystone or Underwood would have done for their sets.

There's really not much out there from or about Chickering.

 

Here's tiny bit more abt Chickering in-' Photographers of the
United States of America, ©National Stereoscopic Association 1994-Updated 11/28/2003-Complied by T. K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah

'Chickering, Roydon Detroit, MI [9-2] 2052 Collingwood. Prints scarce on gray curved mats.; house, boat, people, portraits,
interiors, etc. Prob. mainly amateur although
said to have worked for Keystone View Co.'

PS-Interesting that he in several museum collections.

 

The fellow might still be alive.

 

Mayor? Governor? City Councilor? I think he has a prominent look about him.

 

He could be anyone. An automobile company exec, a bank manager, an ad man. Prosperous but conventional.

Debora