This mid-20th-century photograph captures a memorial cannon on public display in Penacook, New Hampshire, a village of Concord. Guns of this type -- often surplus Civil War or Spanish-American War ordnance -- were commonly awarded to towns and veterans' organizations as commemorative trophies, mounted on wooden carriages atop stone or concrete plinths in parks and town squares across New England. The surrounding streetscape, including a brick commercial building, utility pole, ornate streetlamp, and period automobile, situates the monument within the everyday fabric of small-town American life. As part of a larger collection of stateside WWII-era negatives, this image may reflect wartime interest in such civic landmarks, a period during which numerous communities surveyed -- and in some cases surrendered -- historic monument cannons for scrap metal drives supporting the war effort. Project: 218315