An early 1900s Edwardian photo hiding in a closet isn’t the only surprise the Victorian-style Mercer house in Casper had for its new owners, a couple who fled Florida’s heat for the cooler mountain climate in Wyoming.

“I had just assumed that it was Mr. and Mrs. Mercer, because I had not seen a photo of them,” Chanelle Rodriguez told Cowboy State Daily. “But I had asked the (Mercer) family (descendants) about it, and they said, ‘No we don’t know them at all.’ So, there’s kind of like a grand mystery surrounding this portrait that I have of them.”

The photo has a publishing date of 1924 printed on it, though that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the same year that the photo was taken.

“I looked up the company and apparently they had done door-to-door services for a long time,” Rodriguez s

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