Jun 14, 2015 2 min read

This young couple is about to embark on a honeymoon, but who the two are is unknown, as are the location and the identity of the photographer. We’re hoping our readers can name the people and place and solve this week’s Mystery Photo.

The one thing that is known is the year of the wedding: 1955. The year is visible under magnification on the car’s registration plate.

This is one of several hundred images donated to the Observer-Reporter by Wheeling photographer and writer Jim Thornton, who found the negatives at a flea market. We have published several of these photos, hoping to discover the person who made them and give him or her the deserved recognition.

If you think you know who the people are or where the alley is located, email Park Burroughs, retired executive editor, at pburroughs@observer-reporter.com, or call and leave a message for him with your phone number at 724-222-2200, extension 2400. With a little luck, we may be able to solve this puzzle and publish our findings later.

Last mystery solved: Several more readers called last week to register their guesses about the previous Mystery Photo. We were unable to draw a conclusion because of a lack of evidence. The late callers added Davistown, Clarksville and Houston to the long list of possibilities, but it was Scott Horne who solved the puzzle. He’d remembered seeing the same photo in Earle Forrest’s 1926 “History of Washington County,” and sure enough, the same photo appears in Volume 1 of that work. Forrest explained that the buildings were at the northeast corner of North College and East Chestnut streets in Washington. They were the home of John Dagg, who built them in the 1830s. Dagg was one of Washington’s wealthiest men and was for many years proprietor of the Mansion House in Old Concord.