Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Postcard, Picture |
Collection |
Oil Museum of Canada Collection |
Accession number |
OMC 2011.003 |
Catalog Number |
OMC 2011.003.007 |
Title |
Oil Springs Ont. |
Photographer |
Louis James Pesha |
Date |
1900s |
Description |
Black and white photograph postcard in a sepia tone of W.S. Duggan General Store and Flour and Feed. The family is posing in front of the building and horse and business carriage. The business was on the Main Street of Oil Springs. The postcard was produced by famed photographer, Louis Pesha. |
Provenance |
Photographer, Louis Pesha was born on August 11, 1868, in Euphemia Township, Lambton County, about two miles north of Shetland and worked on farms in the area for a good portion of his early life. It was not until he was twenty-seven years old (1895) that he learned the photography trade and began to pursue it, in earnest, as a career. During the next six years records indicate that he had photographic studios in Alvinston, Brigden, Inwood and Oil Springs with the bulk of his work consisting of taking 5X7 and 8X10 portraits. By 1901, the Pesha family had immigrated to Michigan and were living in Marine City, as well as operating a fair-sized photographic studio business. Between 1908 and 1912 it is estimated that Pesha took as many as 10,000 postcard pictures. He photographed extensively throughout Lower Michigan, Southwestern Ontario, Northern Ohio, Niagara Falls, parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma City. His photos were taken on glass negatives and required the transporting of photographic equipment that was heavy and fragile and yet it is generally thought that he worked alone. On October 1, 1912, Pesha was visiting his boyhood home in Euphemia Township where he died in an automobile accident. |
Print Size |
14cm x 8.8cm |
Search Terms |
Dog General Store Horse Oil Springs Photograph Postcard W.S. Duggan Flour & Feed W.S. Duggan General Store |
People |
Duggan, W.S. Pesha, Louis |
Place |
Oil Springs, Ontario |