COLLECTIONS

Gilbert Sandford Vernam Collection

Gilbert Sandford Vernam (1890-1960) worked for the research department of American Telephone and Telegraph and other communication companies, but he was best known for his contributions to the science of cryptology. The collection contains some random notes (1919), and an incomplete copy of an abstract of a speech by H.H. Timbers on “Printing Telegraphy” (1919) and blueprints of Multiple Test Set for No. 11 Lamp Multiple Test Circuit (1912). Also included is a copy of the Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers by Parker Hitt (1918). The major part of the collections consists of three diaries kept by Vernam during 1918, 1919, and 1922-26. The 1918 volume deals primarily with the Morkrum Deciphering, Enciphering Set.


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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: 32 UL
Date: 1912 - 1926
Collection Size: .25 lf
 
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