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Sunday, December 6, 2020

Mystery Couple Found in a Roll of Film From Nearly 70 Years Ago

By Marie Fazio

Internet sleuths have been captivated by the photos, which were recently developed and document a couple’s trip to the Swiss-Italian border with a dachshund.
A woman and a dachshund appear in a photo from a roll of film from the 1950s that was recently developed. Her identity and that of a man in other photos remain a mystery.Credit: Collection of William Fagan

For nearly 70 years, a partially finished roll of film that documented a couple’s escapades in Switzerland and Italy was hidden away in a brass container, forgotten as it changed hands.

The roll fell into the possession of William Fagan, a film collector from Dublin, in 2015 when it arrived in a box with a vintage Leica camera from 1935.