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An audio of an interview with Ann Ellicott Madeira, who was recruited by the United States government as a code breaker during World War II.

Print shows Uncle Sam dancing through a minefield of political issues, such as "Catholic Demands for part of School Funds", "Single Tax Fad", "Populism", "Prohibition Foolishness", "Women's Rights Nonsense", and the "Free Silver Mania", which all…

A photograph of Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, who played a crucial role in the decryption of the Japanese encryption machine codenamed "Purple" by the United States government.

A photograph of Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the woman who broke the Japanese M-1 cipher machine.

Apulian krater with scene from Thesmophoriazusae, c. 370 BC

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.

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

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

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.