Pony Tales - An itinerent photographer was a summer tradition

Wow! The weeks are zipping by and I have had no time to post new stories. My excuse is that I am taking a documentary film production course. It's full time, and my assignments leave me with very few hours to spare.
A few months ago I shared a photo of my mother which was made during WW2 beside the family residence on Paradise Row. (below) The story was that there was an itinerant photographer who spent summers wandering Saint John streets with a saddled pony, inviting parents to have photos made of their children. To date I have received no information to add to my story, but today I was browsing a Saint John FACEBOOK site and found two photos which are definitely related.

My mother, Joyce Brown, was one of the thirteen Brown siblings living at 92 Paradise Row, during WW2. Why only she was favored with a pony picture, is lost to memory.


Frankie and Marleen (Grass) Walsh in 1959. The photo was taken on Britain Street in the South End. It's a different pony but almost the same dress !, just 15 years later.

This is definitely the same pony, saddle and tack. Betty (Ekstrom) Dupree used a digital camera to copy her childhood photo. On FACEBOOK she says this pony picture was taken on Barker Street, circa 1947-48. Because Betty didn't take the old photo out of the frame she is ghosted by the reflecting glass.