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Ann Caracristi

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…

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

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

Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein

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

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Bust of Aristophanes

Herm of Euripides

marble portrait of Euripides

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Apulian krater with scene from Thesmophoriazusae, c. 370 BC

Apollo

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

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…

Arlington Hall 1943

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

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…