At first glance, this old black and white photo from deep within the Telegraph archives may look like a movie set for an old Western, the place where the actors tossed a few revolver shots back and forth leading up to the bad guys blowing up the large safe in the background. However, according to some faint writing on the back, what the classic image actually depicts is an office and the walk-in vault (or safe if you prefer) of a late-19th-century Nashua business called the Security Trust Company, described as an "assignee" business that around the turn of the 20th century operated out of Room 2 at 142 Main St., which is the Odd Fellows Building. The large, open book on the counter at left was probably the ledger in which transactions were recorded, sort of an 1890s version of a computer. (From The Telegraph Files)

At first glance, this old black and white photo from deep within The Telegraph archives may look like a movie set for an old Western, the place where the actors tossed a few revolver shots back and forth leading up to the bad guys blowing up the large safe in the background. However, according to some faint writing on the back, what the classic image actually depicts is an office and the walk-in vault (or safe if you prefer) of a late-19th-century Nashua business called the Security Trust Company, described as an ‘assignee’ business that around the turn of the 20th century operated out of Room 2 at 142 Main St., which is the Odd Fellows Building. The large, open book on the counter at left was probably the ledger in which transactions were recorded, sort of an 1890s version of a computer.