Matted photograph of a group of men standing on Washington Square. Several tents are visible on the street in the background; the Oliver Hazard Perry Monument is located at right. A gun from the 18th century Sloop of War Tartar is visible at foreground.

Handwriting on reverse reads as follows:
"Lection' Day Booths?
'Tartar' Cannon now 1963 at N.H. Soc.
Washington Square
H.B. Wood 1880+
no plate".