| This photo has been with me since I lived in Detroit,
and for years I had no idea who or where or when...
The photo above was given to me almost
40 years ago by an old Detroit friend who found it in
an archive in Lansing. I put it on my website here as
a curiosity, and several years later was contacted by
some folks who do what they call forensic
genealogy—they find out the back story on unusual
photos. And they sent me the second photo, which
contains obvious evidence of a Detroit origin.
It's clearly the same guy, but a different "instrument." St. Aubin is still sort of a street, probably one of the oldest in Detroit, right down by the river. Then I found a third image of the guy:
This one (above) has appeared, on
Retronaut. Same studio, different backdrop, but
obviously the same shoot as the 2nd photo. No info,
but I know from www.forensicgenealogy.info/contest_54_results.html
that his name is Charles Crawford. Bet he looked great
in the hat. And then another rather funky image (I think I lifted this from an eBay auction) of a guy in Boonton, NJ, playing one of the Detroit contraptions. No two alike. 
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