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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.

RG 457

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

HIST-038-001

Arlington Hall - Post Bldgs. and Grounds; Main Building

The Japanese PURPLE Machine

A recovered part of the original Japanese Type B cipher machine, codenamed "Purple" by the United States, on display at the National Cryptologic…

SIS women using Purple Analog

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…

Arlington Hall 1943

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

Dionysus

The god Dionysus stands holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and pinecone-like object in the other. He is crowned with a wreath of grapes and clothed…

Apollo

The god Apollo is depicted as an effeminate man with long hair holding a lyre.

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Apulian krater with scene from Thesmophoriazusae, c. 370 BC