COLLECTIONS

Friedman Cryptologic Collection

This collection consists of material pertaining to either the science of cryptology or William F. Friedman, one of the foremost American cryptographers. The largest portion of this collection consists of copies of NSA/CSS documents made available to the National Archives. These Signal Research Histories (SRH), which all pertain to WW II intelligence matters, include articles and lectures by Friedman, Japanese diplomatic messages, reports on various wartime intelligence agencies, and copies of GCM correspondence concerning MAGIC and ULTRA. Also included are a scrapbook kept by amateur cryptanalyst Howard T. Oakley on the various applications of codes and a series of book reviews of David Kahn’s The Codebreakers.


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Photograph of a young Vietnamese Boy, 1968
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Sometime in 1968, C. W. Bowman took care of a young Vietnamese boy. He picked him up off the streets in Saigon during the Tet offensive (January-September of 1968). The boy’s family had been killed and he was living on the street. Charles Bowman bought him a uniform and fed him at the Company area.

FRA-00996, Tourism
Call Number: FRA-00996 Collection:

Scene along country road in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00998, Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00998 Collection:

A wheat field in France.

Photographs

FRA-00997, Manufacturing in northern France., October 2, 1948
Call Number: FRA-00997 Collection:

Factory under construction in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00995, Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00995 Collection:

Wheat field in France.

Photographs

FRA-00993, Agriculture/Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00993 Collection:

Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.

Photographs

FRA-00994, Coal
Call Number: FRA-00994 Collection:

Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.

Photographs

FRA-00991, Mobile Caravan Exhibit
Call Number: FRA-00991 Collection:

Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.

Photographs

FRA-00992, Tourism
Call Number: FRA-00992 Collection:

Scene along the road in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00987, Mobile Caravan Exhibit
Call Number: FRA-00987 Collection:

Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.

Photographs

Collection Number: 110 ML
Date: 1831 - 1982
Collection Size: 1 lf
 
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