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  • Collection: Women's History - Fall 2023

The Sanger Clinic, 46 Amboy Street, Brooklyn.png
Photograph shows women and men sitting with baby carriages in front of the Sanger Clinic.

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

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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.

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Photograph shows Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) who was found guilty of violating the state penal code by operating the first birth control clinic on Amboy Street in Brooklyn in February 1917

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Photograph shows Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966), an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse.

Fania Mindell Harold Hersey Marian Bloom.png
Photograph shows Fania Mindell (left), who worked with Margaret Sanger at the first birth control clinic in the United States, Harold Hersey (1893-1956) (center), an editor and publisher and Marian Bloom (1891-1975) (right).

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Official Title: The Statutes at Large and Proclamations, of the United States of America, from March 1871 to March 1873, and Treaties and Postal Conventions Arranged in Chronological Order and carefully collated with the Originals at Washington. With…
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