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Shows Margaret Sanger with Fania Mindell inside Brownsville clinic.

Photograph shows Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966), an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse with a child. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

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.

Illustration shows Anthony Comstock as a monk thwarting shameless displays of excessive flesh, whether that of women, horses, or dogs, with a "Jane Doe Warrant".

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.

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…