His Studio
In 1901, Pesha moved to the United States and settled in Marine City, Michigan. He opened a photography studio (known as various variations of “The Pesha Postcard Company.”
His primary focus was photographing commercial ships as they passed in front of his studio, on the Saint Clair River. He also traveled around the Great Lakes Basin, photographing railroad stations and buildings in villages, towns and cities in the United States and his native Canada. He would later print his photographs as postcards, selling them to stores for the public to buy and use.
Following Pesha’s death in 1912, his widow continued the business, in Marine City, until about 1920. She later moved the business to Detroit, but photopostcards passed out of fashion in the 1920s. The vast majority of his glass negatives were then destroyed.
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