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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.

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

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.

Bust of Aristophanes

marble portrait of Euripides

Apulian krater with scene from Thesmophoriazusae, c. 370 BC

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

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 in a knee-length robe, animal-hide vest and open-toed boots.

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

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.