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A recovered part of the original Japanese Type B cipher machine, codenamed "Purple" by the United States, on display at the National Cryptologic Museum in Washington DC.

Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) cryptologists at work at Arlington Hall. Many of these cryptologists were women.

Photograph shows women and men sitting with baby carriages in front of the Sanger Clinic.

Two women at work at the U.S. Army during World War II. The woman on the right is inputting ciphertext into an analog of the Japanese Type B Cipher Machine, codenamed "Purple" by the United States.

A female code breaker operating a Naval Security Station cryptanalytic machine to help decode enemy communications during World War II.

Cartoon showing women constructing the word "Women" and working on a jeep.

A photograph of Ann Caracristi, a cryptanalyst who worked as a code breaker during World War II. She later became the first female deputy director of the NSA.

Apulian krater with scene from Thesmophoriazusae, c. 370 BC