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William F. Friedman Papers

William Frederick Friedman (1891-1969) was an American cryptologist, considered by some experts to be the greatest of all time. In August 1940, a Signal Intelligence Service team led by Friedman and assisted by the Navy, broke the Japanese PURPLE code. Friedman continued to serve U.S. cryptologic agencies during and after the war.

The private cryptological work of Friedman and his wife, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who was also a distinguished professional cryptographer, is also documented here. Among the many topics covered are the question of the authorship of the works of Shakespeare; archaeologically discovered codes and ciphers (especially in Mayan culture); and the Beale ciphers, which, if deciphered, would reputedly lead to the site of buried treasure.)

The Friedman Collection: An Analytical Guide  is a painstakingly thorough inventory researched and written by Virginia Military Institute Professor Rose Mary Sheldon.

Barbara Friedman, Age 1
One of the Drives at Riverbank
Postcard of William F. Friedman in His Car
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and John Ramsay Friedman, Aged 9 1/2
“Cryptography or Secret Writing, Oral and Written Correspondence”
“Greetings from Venice”
“Schola Stenographica”
“The Wheel,” Used by Dr. Owen to Decipher Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher Writings
“To Elizebeth with Love;” A Portrait of Floyd Orup
“To My Dear Aunt Betty from Baby Meryl”
“To Our Bestest Friends, Billy and Elizebeth;” A Portrait of Hildur and Floyd Orup
“With Love to Billy;” A Portrait of Hildur Orup
7-9 Berkeley Street, London, United Kingdom
A Cipher Based on Musical Notes
A Cipher Chart in Italian with Notes
A Corner of William F. Friedman’s House on Military Road
A Cylindrical Cipher Device Invented by Thomas Jefferson
A Family Sitting Outside
A Garage at Riverbank
A Group of Men, Including William F. Friedman, at the International Telegraph Conference
A Group of Men, Including William F. Friedman, at the International Telegraph Conference
A Group of Men, Including William F. Friedman, at the International Telegraph Conference
A Group of People Around William F. Friedman’s Bust at a Memorial Service for Friedman
A Group Photo in an Office
A Group, Including William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman, Celebrating the Release of The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, in a Bookstore
A Message to Bill Gold about the True Author of His Column and Shakespeare; Bill Gold’s Column on the Cipher Contained in The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined
A park area at Riverbank Laboratories
A Portrait of Sir Alfred Ewing That Appeared in the New York Times Magazine
A Postcard of a Flora-Covered Walkway at Riverbank Laboratories
A Postcard of a Scenic View of Riverbank Laboratories
A Postcard of William F. Friedman and Two Unidentified Young Men on a Tennis Court, Addressed to Mr. Alfred Scheim
A Print from “The Giant Raft,” Part II of The Cryptogram by Jules Vernes
A Print of Two Famous Pages from The Northumberland Manuscript
A Roman Aqueduct in Segovia and The Alcazar
A View from a Window at Riverbank
A View of the Windmill in which Elizebeth S. Friedman and William F. Friedman Lived at Riverbank
A Woman Next to A Herd of Sheep in Druid Hill Park
A Young Peggy Spillman
A Young William F. Friedman
A Young William F. Friedman on a Staircase
Allan Dulles Delivers an Address Before Bestowing Upon William F. Friedman the National Security Medal (Only the 6th Ever Given)
Allan Dulles Delivers an Address Before Bestowing Upon William F. Friedman the National Security Medal (Only the 6th Ever Given)
Allan Dulles Presents William F. Friedman with the National Security Medal
Allan Dulles Presents William F. Friedman with the National Security Medal
American Black Chamber (Annotated – Digital)
American Black Chamber (Annotated)
American Black Chamber Video
American Delegation to the International Telegraph Conference
An Advanced Problem in Cryptography and its Solution
An Unidentified Couple
An Unidentified Woman at Her Home in Goshen County, Wyoming
Announcement in Latin
Announcement of the Birth of John Ramsay Friedman
Army Security Agency Staff (WDGAS)
Barbara (Age 6) and John Ramsay (Age 3) Friedman
Barbara and Chris Atchison with a Bicycle for Two
Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman
Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman
Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman
Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman at the Zoo
Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman in front of a Monument
Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman Playing in the Yard
Barbara as an Indian Princess in a School Play
Barbara at a Washtub
Barbara Friedman in a Stroller
Barbara Friedman and “Skipper” Snow on the Banks of the Potomac River on Christmas Day
Barbara Friedman at 6 Months
Barbara Friedman in a Fur Coat on a Winter Day
Barbara Friedman in a White Dress
Barbara Friedman in a White Hat
Barbara Friedman in Panama
Barbara Friedman Looking at a Book
Barbara Friedman Looking at a Book on a Wagon
Barbara Friedman on a Walk on Christmas Day
Barbara Friedman Posing in front of a Screen
Barbara Friedman sitting in a Chair
Barbara Friedman Sitting in a Chair at Radcliffe College
Barbara Friedman Sitting on a Stool
Barbara Friedman Sitting on a Swing
Barbara Friedman with a Playmate
Barbara Friedman, Age 13 Months
Barbara Friedman, Age 14 1/2 Months, in the Bathtub
Barbara Friedman, Age 14 1/2 Months, On Christmas Day 1924
Barbara Friedman, Age 6 1/2 Months, in a Pram
Barbara Friedman, Age 6 1/2 Months, in a Pram
Barbara Standing in the Water at St. George’s Island
Barbara’s Wedding
Bobbie Balboa Hangs onto a Fence
Bobbie Balboa on a Balcony
Boris Hagelin with Two Bottles of Liquor
Bride and Groom William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman
Bride and Groom William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman
Brigadier John Tiltman
Cambridge University Press Booth Exhibit
Candid Photographs of William F. Friedman on Oxford Street in London
Captain Eddie Hastings of British Naval Intelligence
Captain J.A. Powell, in Uniform, at Riverbank
Cassie and Eleanor
Chart of Figures and Symbols
Chart of Symbols
Christmas Card, Signed Laubros and Helen
Coded Letter
Coded Letter
Coded Letters
Comic Strip about the Bacon-Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
Cover of The Works of George Dalgarno of Aberdeen
Deciphering Information Related to the Bible
Dinner for the Delegates of the International Radiotelegraph Conference Given by the Radio Corporation of America and the National Broadcasting Company
Discussions in the Friedman Collection at the Marshall Library
Dr. Kullback and Dr. Sinkov (The First Two Assistants Appointed to Serve Under William F. Friedman) Unroll a Parchment Scroll, Signed by About 1,300 of Friedman’s Colleagues, At His Retirement Ceremony
Dr. Kullback and Dr. Sinkov (The First Two Assistants Appointed to Serve Under William F. Friedman) Unroll a Parchment Scroll, Signed by About 1,300 of Friedman’s Colleagues, At His Retirement Ceremony
Early Hebern Code Machine
Edna Smith Dinieus and Elizebeth S. Friedman on an Excursion in Great Falls
Edna Smith Dinieus and Elizebeth S. Friedman Outside on a Cold Winter Day
Edna Smith Dinieus on an Excursion in Great Falls
Edna Smith Dinieus Outside on a Cold Winter Day
Elements of Cryptanalysis
Elizabeth Wells Gallup at Her Desk
Elizebeth S. Friedman and An Unidentified Woman at a Memorial Service for William F. Friedman
Elizebeth S. Friedman and John Ramsay at a Memorial Service for William F. Friedman
Elizebeth S. Friedman and John Ramsay Friedman on Christmas Day
Elizebeth S. Friedman and Rosa Trust Friedman in George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank Laboratories
Elizebeth S. Friedman and Three Unidentified Men around William F. Friedman’s Bust at a Memorial Service for Friedman
Elizebeth S. Friedman and William F. Friedman with Professor and Mrs. Edmund Morgan at their House in the Alpes
Elizebeth S. Friedman in William F. Friedman’s Study
Elizebeth S. Friedman with An Unidentified Man at a Memorial Service for William F. Friedman
Elizebeth S. Friedman, John Ramsay Friedman, Barbara Friedman, and Four Unidentified People at a Memorial Service for William F. Friedman
Elizebeth S. Friedman, Rosa Trust Friedman, and Stanley Friedman in George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank Laboratories
Elizebeth S. Friedman, the Deputy Director of the NSA, and Mr. Nachman, the Sculptor Who Made the Bust of Friedman at a Memorial Service for William F. Friedman
Eric Jones, Captain RAF
Evelyn Thomas and Ted Potter Sitting in a Chair
Explanation of the Decipherment of Babylonian Texts
Family Photos from Christmas Day
Federal Army Cipher Books
Filmstrip of Barbara Friedman
Filmstrip of Barbara Friedman
Filmstrip of Children at a Fence
Four Unidentified People Swimming in a Pool at Riverbank Laboratories
French Code Card
Friedman Family Portrait
Friedman Lecture on the Shakespeare Ciphers
G.W. Fish, RCM Police, Vancouver, British Columbia
George C. Marshall’s Gravestone
George Fabyan Sitting in the “Hell Chair” at Riverbank Laboratories
George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank
George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank
George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank Laboratories
George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank Laboratories
Government-Made Photograph of William F. Friedman
Green Mansions, the Friedmans’ Home from 1923-1925
Hagelin Machine Type BC-543
Hagelin Machine, Type C-443
Hand-held Hagelin Machine
Harry F. Friedman, a “Hard-Boiled Corporal in Uncle Sam’s Army”
Hebern Electric Code Cipher Machine; Basic and Original Model
Henry L. Stimson
Hildur Orup and Elizebeth S. Friedman on the Bank of the Potomac River
Identification Photo of William F. Friedman
Ignatius Donnelly’s Cipher to the Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
Illustration of a Castle
Illustration of a Man and a Woman
Illustration of Johannes Trithemius
Information about the Graduation Exercises of the ASA School, Officers Course I
Jeanne Cook in front of Rubble
Jo Woodring, Judy Woodring, Jane Woodring, Barbara Friedman, and John Ramsay Friedman in Rock Creek Park
John Ramsay Friedman and Four Unidentified People at a Memorial Service for William F. Friedman
John Ramsay Friedman and Sidney Fain in the Front Yard
John Ramsay Friedman in a Chair
John Ramsay Friedman in a Chair in the Yard
John Ramsay Friedman in a Chair, Age 2
John Ramsay Friedman in a Tuxedo
John Ramsay Friedman in His Office
John Ramsay Friedman Poses Wearing William F. Friedman’s Cutaway Suit
John Ramsay Friedman Riding a Horse
John Ramsay Friedman Sitting, Age 2
John Ramsay Friedman Washing a Car in the Driveway
John Ramsay Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, Vanessa Friedman, and John Ramsay Friedman’s Wife in William F. Friedman’s Garden
Knowledge is Power Video
Lieutenant General Ralph S. Canine Presents Mr. Wenger a Letter of Appreciation
Lieutenant General Ralph S. Canine, To Whom William F. Friedman Was a Special Assistant, Speaks at Friedman’s Retirement Ceremony
Major Mannie Lee Raley, Winner of Low Gross, Accepting a trophy from William F. Friedman at the Presentation Ceremony following the Arlington Hall Station Medal Golf Tournament 1949
Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers
Manual of Cryptography
Manual of Military Signaling
Memorandum for William F. Friedman with Information about Colonel Lionel C. McGarr
Methods for the Solution of Ciphers
Mrs. Curwell, Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman, Taken While William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman were in Europe
Nancy and Gene Bergman on their Wedding Day
Nathaniel Christopher Atchison
Nathaniel Christopher Atchison with his Maternal Grandparents, Elizebeth S. Friedman and William F. Friedman
Negative of a Coded Letter
Negative of a Dog
Negative of a Group of Men, Including William F. Friedman
Negative of a Letter
Negative of a Letter Chart
Negative of a Portrait of an Unidentified Man
Negative of an Unidentified Child
Negative of an Unidentified Child
Negative of an Unidentified Child
Negative of an Unidentified Code Machine
Negative of an Unidentified Man and Two Unidentified Women
Negative of an Unidentified Open Code Machine
Negative of Barbara Friedman
Negative of Children Playing with a Dog
Negative of the Zimmermann Telegram
Negative of Two Unidentified Code Machines
Negative of William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Sitting on a Rock in Great Falls
Negative of William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Standing Together
Negative of William F. Friedman and Two Unidentified People Sitting on a Rock in Great Falls
Negative of William F. Friedman Sitting in a Garden
Negatives of a Family
Negatives of an Unidentified Child
Negatives of an Unidentified Child
Negatives of an Unidentified Man and Child
Negatives of Confederate Cipher Codes and Intercepted Dispatches
Negatives of Pages from National Affairs
Negatives of Religious Icons
Negatives of Unidentified Children
Negatives of Unidentified Children
Negatives of Unidentified Children
Negatives of Unidentified Children
Negatives of Unidentified Children
Negatives of Unidentified Children
Negatives of William F. Friedman with Barbara Friedman
Nita and Nellie Curwell sitting in the Grass
Note from Zimmermann to Bernstorff for Eckhardt
NSA Scientific Advisory Board Members
NSA Scientific Advisory Board Members at the Meeting Held 1956 February 17
Numbers Card
Of Anagrams
Olive, Miss Cromwell, and Tortino
Oversized: 25th Reunion of Pittsburgh Central High School Class of 1909
Oversized: International Radiotelegraph Conference Group Photo
Oversized: World War I Cryptographers, Including William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman
Painting of Charles Evans Hughes
Painting of Cordell Hull
Painting of Henry L. Stimson
Participants in the Second J.A.C. Conference
Passage from Julius Caesar with Notes by Dr. Wallace Cunningham “Proving” that Bacon Wrote Shakespeare
Photographs That Were Under the Glass on William F. Friedman’s Desk for Many Years
Photos of Nathaniel Gottleib
Picture following an Awards Presentation
Pictures of Two Men and a Large Country Estate
Pictures of William F. Friedman Taken by Walter Bennett of Time Magazine
Plenary Session of the International Telegraph Conference
Portrait of Alfred McCormack, to William F. Friedman
Portrait of an Unidentified Man in Uniform
Portrait of Barbara Friedman
Portrait of Barbara Friedman
Portrait of Barbara Friedman
Portrait of Boris Hagelin
Portrait of Colonel A.J. McGrail, Expert on Secret Inks
Portrait of Colonel Frank Moorman
Portrait of Elizebeth S. Friedman
Portrait of Frank Birch
Portrait of Frank W. Bulloch
Portrait of General David Crawford
Portrait of General W. Preston Corderman
Portrait of George Gibbs, Chief Signal Officer
Portrait of H.T Engstrom
Portrait of Harriet Wickham
Portrait of Ignatius Donnelly
Portrait of Nate Gould, William F. Friedman’s High School Best Friend
Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Intelligence Division Admiralty War Staff, 1914-1918
Portrait of S.B. Akin, Major General, U.S. Army
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman
Portrait of William F. Friedman in His Army Signal Corps Uniform
Portrait of William F. Friedman Video
Portrait of William F. Friedman’s Sister, Libby Friedman
Portraits of an Unidentified Man
Postcard from William F. Friedman to Stanley Friedman
Postcard of George Fabyan’s Japanese Garden, Addressed to William F. Friedman While He Was Stationed in France During WWI
Postcard of Sheep in front of a circular structure at Riverbank Laboratories
Postcard of the Riverbank Grounds
Postcard of William F. Friedman
Postcard of William F. Friedman in Trafalgar Square
Postcard of William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and Three Unidentified People in a Field from William F. Friedman to Ruth Trust Friedman
Postcard with Messages on the Back
Presentation of a Monetary Award for an “Adopted Suggestion” for Improving Efficiency of Operations
Presentation of the Exceptional Service Medal (the War Department’s Highest Decoration) to William F. Friedman by Major General Harry C. Fugles
Presentation of the Medal for Merit to William F. Friedman
Print of a Dictionary Page
Print of a Letter Chart
Print of a Letter Chart
Print of a Letter Signed by B. Arnold
Print of a Letter Signed by James Lovelle
Print of a Page from The Tempest
Print of a People Working with a Printing Press
Print of a Portrait of Antoine Rossignol
Print of Gabriel Colangelius Aluern
Prints of Code Symbols
Professor Vincent in front of the Senate Building in Cambridge, England
Raalyemond D. Parker in front of His House on His 94th Birthday
Rear-Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Reproductions of Coded Letters from the Library of Congress
Shakespearean Text and Message from Walter Raleigh
Sir Edward Travis, Knighted for Service to the British Government in Communications Intelligence
Slide of William F. Friedman Outside
Staff of the American Embassy in London
Table of Numbers
The American Delegation to the International Telegraph Conference
The American Delegation to the International Telegraph Conference, Aboard Ship
The Arlington Hall Group
The Arlington Hall Group
The ASA Chiefs of Divisions
The British Secretary of War’s Announcement of a List of General and Field Officers in the Army
The Enciphered Letter; A Criticism of the Cipher Systems in Use Among Us
The Entrance to Riverbank Laboratories
The Farewell Party for General Canine
The Frankfurt Cathedral
The Friedmans on Shakespeare Video
The Friedmans’ House at 310 Second Street in Washington, D.C. (Bought 1952, Sold 1971)
The Friedmans’ House at Pomonkey Point
The Hagelin Machine (Known in the U.S. As The M209 Converter)
The Parallel Committee, IBM
The Party Following William F. Friedman’s Retirement Ceremony
The Party Following William F. Friedman’s Retirement Ceremony
The Riverbank Grounds
The Riverbank Grounds
The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined
The shakespearean ciphers examined : an analysis of cryptographic systems used as evidence that some author other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays commonly attributed to him / by William F. Friedman & Elizabeth S. Friedman
The Shakespearean ciphers examined an analysis of cryptographic systems used as evidence that some author other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays commonly attributed to him, by William F. Friedman & Elizabeth S. Friedman
The SIS
The Story of Francis Bacon
The Sunday Morning Walking Club
The Ushers for William F. Friedman’s Retirement Ceremony
The William F. Friedman Memorial Auditorium and A Bust of Friedman
The Windmill in Which William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Lived at Riverbank
The Zimmermann Telegram and its Cryptographic Background by William F. Friedman and Charles J. Mendelsohn
Theo and Ray Owen at a Red Cross Luncheon
Three Unidentified Men at the International Telegraph Conference
Three Unidentified Men at the International Telegraph Conference
Three Unidentified Men at the International Telegraph Conference
Three Unidentified Nurses
Two Unidentified Women on a Suburban Street
Unidentified Couple by a Staircase
Unidentified Cryptographic Device
Unidentified Girl Standing in a Field Holding a Bouquet of Black-Eyed Susans
Unidentified Man and Baby Sitting on a Blanket
Unidentified Man at the Parthenon in Athens
Unidentified Man Standing on a Walkway
Unidentified Solider
Unidentified Woman and Child
Unidentified Woman and Child
Unidentified Woman Holding a Camera
Unidentified Woman Sitting by a Pool at Riverbank
Unidentified Woman Standing in a Garden
Version I and II of the Zimmermann Telegram, No. 158
W. Gordon Welchman, Seated at a Desk; Letter Included
Walter Hines Page, American Ambassador to Britain during World War I, at His Desk
Warren G. Harding’s Inauguration
Wheatstone Cipher
William F. Friedman on the slope of Mount Ridge
William F. Friedman after Arriving in Frankfurt
William F. Friedman And a Large Group of Young People, Including Nathan Gould
William F. Friedman and an Unidentified Man
William F. Friedman and Colonel Rex Winkler Officially Take Over Arlington Hall
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman at a Cambridge University Press Reception in Honor of the Release of The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman at the Mediterranean with Lady Carola Mannerheim
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman at the Peabody Institute Library
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman at the Rune-Stone at Gripsholm Castle
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in a Hotel Lobby in Stockholm
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in front of a House
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in front of a House at Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in front of the Wythe House
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in front of Their House
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in Sweden
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in their canoe on the Potomac River
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in their Library Study
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in their Library Study, Featured in Time Magazine, 1957 May 14, and on the Book Jacket of The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman in Various Parts of Visby, Sweden
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Leaving the Theatre at Arlington Hall Station after the Ceremonies in Honor of William F. Friedman’s Retirement
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman on a Boat During their Trip to Norway
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman on an Excursion
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman on the Grounds of Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman on the Grounds of Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman on the Grounds of Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman on the Steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Building
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Sitting in a Field
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Sitting in a Garden
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman Standing before a Parchment Scroll, Signed by about 1,300 of His Colleagues, at the Party Following His Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman with Bikes at on the Grounds of Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman with Edna Smith Dinieus on an Excursion
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman’s Marriage Certificate
William F. Friedman and Elizebeth Smith on the Grounds of Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman and Four Unidentified Young Men at Ohiopyle, PA, Where the Friedmans Vacationed
William F. Friedman and Friends in a Field
William F. Friedman and Friends on a Fence at Michigan Agricultural College (Now Michigan State University)
William F. Friedman and Friends on a Porch at Michigan Agricultural College (Now Michigan State University)
William F. Friedman and Herbert D. Brown on Lake Seneca
William F. Friedman and Nate Gould at Michigan Agricultural College (Now Michigan State University)
William F. Friedman and Professor Sam Wilkes Side-By-Side
William F. Friedman and Stephen Dunwell Shake Hands at the Party after Friedman Received the National Security Medal
William F. Friedman and Verna Lehman
William F. Friedman as a Young Man
William F. Friedman at a Desk
William F. Friedman at a desk with a Hebern Machine
William F. Friedman at a Friend’s July 4th Celebration
William F. Friedman at His Desk in the Months Preceding the International Radio Conference of 127 Nations in Washington, D.C.
William F. Friedman at Pomonkey Point
William F. Friedman at the AT&T Printing Telegraph Cipher Machine
William F. Friedman at the International Telegraph Conference
William F. Friedman awards $250.00 to Mrs. Mabel E Ford
William F. Friedman Chokes Back Tears During the Applause after Receiving the National Security Medal
William F. Friedman Delivering His “Farewell Address” at His Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman Delivering His “Farewell Address” at His Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman Delivering His “Farewell Address” at His Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman Delivering His “Farewell Address” at His Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman High School Graduation Picture
William F. Friedman in a Garden
William F. Friedman in front of a House at Riverbank
William F. Friedman in front of a Statue in Frankfurt
William F. Friedman in front of George Washington’s Tomb
William F. Friedman in front of the Carleton House Terrace
William F. Friedman in His Office
William F. Friedman in the Back Garden of His Capitol Hill House
William F. Friedman in the Back Garden of His Capitol Hill House
William F. Friedman in the Front Yard of a House
William F. Friedman Making a Study of the Hebern Machine
William F. Friedman on a Bench in Schenley Park While He Was in High School
William F. Friedman on a Hike
William F. Friedman on a Picnic with Friends in Riverview Park
William F. Friedman on a Trip to Hawaii, Panama, and Mexico
William F. Friedman Playing with a Dog
William F. Friedman presents a Brass Door Knocker in the Shape of an Elephant’s Head to Capitol Hill Club President James C. Auchincloss
William F. Friedman Reading in a Rocking Chair
William F. Friedman Reading in Colonel Cook’s Home
William F. Friedman Receives his GS-18 Appointment (Stepping up from GS-16) from General Ralph S. Canine
William F. Friedman Sitting at His Desk
William F. Friedman Sitting in a Garden
William F. Friedman Sitting in a Garden
William F. Friedman Sitting in His Library Study
William F. Friedman Sitting in the Woods in Sweden
William F. Friedman Sitting on a Fence
William F. Friedman Sitting on a Porch
William F. Friedman Speaks at Brooks Air Force Base
William F. Friedman Standing in his World War I Uniform
William F. Friedman Stands before a Parchment Scroll, Signed by About 1,300 Colleagues, at the Party Following his Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman under the Cherry Blossoms
William F. Friedman Walking with Various Army Officers
William F. Friedman Wears the National Security Medal with a Smile at His Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman with “Josh” Cooper and Brigadier John H. Tiltman at the Home of Brig. Tiltman
William F. Friedman with an Unidentified Man
William F. Friedman with Brigadier John H. Tiltman, and NSA Museum Curator L.D. Callinatos
William F. Friedman with Colonel Cook at the Frankfurt Airport Shortly after Friedman’s Arrival
William F. Friedman with His Children, Barbara and John Ramsay Friedman
William F. Friedman with His Grandchildren, Vanessa and Eric Friedman
William F. Friedman with His Grandchildren, Vanessa and Eric Friedman, in the Botanical Gardens at Capitol Hill
William F. Friedman with His Granddaughter, Vanessa (8 Months)
William F. Friedman with His Grandson
William F. Friedman with His Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman with His Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman with Jeanne Cook in front of Rubble
William F. Friedman with John Ramsay Friedman
William F. Friedman with Lieutenant General Ralph S. Canine
William F. Friedman with Three Army Officers
William F. Friedman with Two Unidentified Women
William F. Friedman Working on the Grounds of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Experimental Evolution
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman and a Large Group of Men and Women
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and An Unidentified Man
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and Annie Hagelin on A Set of Steps in Switzerland
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and Barbara Friedman Sitting on the Front Steps
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and Captain Powell Sitting on a porch at Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and Edna Smith Dinieus in the Garden
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and Vera Filby in the Friedmans’ Library
William F. Friedman, Elizebeth S. Friedman, and William’s Sister, “Libbie” Friedman Sit on a Bench
William F. Friedman, Frank Rowlett, General Corderman, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and an Aide to General Eisenhower Talk in front of Arlington Hall
William F. Friedman, His Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, and His Younger Brother, Stanley Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman, His Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, and His Younger Brother, Stanley Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman, in Uniform, Poses With Elizebeth S. Friedman in a Field
William F. Friedman, in uniform, poses with Elizebeth S. Friedman on a deck at Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman, Jake Margolis, Nathan Gould, and An Unidentified Man at Michigan Agricultural College (Now Michigan State University)
William F. Friedman, John Oxley Smith, and Ingrid Arlene Smith on a Set of Stairs
William F. Friedman, Lionel C. McGarr, and Paul E. (Nuff?) at the Graduation Exercises of the ASA School, Officers Course I
William F. Friedman, Mr. Kenneth Kuhn with awards for Mr. Arthur A. Wieder, Winner of the Low Net Third Flight, and for Mr. Lawrence Sykes, Winner of the Low Net Second Flight; Major Mannie Lee Raley, Winner of the Low Gross; and Mr. A.H. Feeney, Winner of the First Flight Low Net following the Arlington Hall Station Medal Golf Tournament 1949
William F. Friedman, Nathan Gould, Jake Margolis, and Five Unidentified Men Pose for a Picture at Michigan Agricultural College (Now Michigan State University)
William F. Friedman, Rosa Trust Friedman, and Stanley Friedman on the grounds of Riverbank Laboratories
William F. Friedman, Technical Advisor to the International Telegraph Conference in Brussels, Elizebeth S. Friedman, with the State Department Delegation in Preparation for the Conference
William F. Friedman’s Arrival in Frankfurt with Howard Eugstrom; Scheduled to Meet with Colonel Schukraft
William F. Friedman’s Brother, Max J. Friedman, in his World War I Army Uniform
William F. Friedman’s Brother, Stanley Friedman, Age 7
William F. Friedman’s Gravestone
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman with her son, Stanley Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman with her son, Stanley Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman with her son, Stanley Friedman, and Elizebeth S. Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman with her son, Stanley Friedman, and Elizebeth S. Friedman in Fabyan’s Japanese Garden at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman with her son, Stanley Friedman, and Elizebeth S. Friedman on a Bench at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, and Elizebeth S. Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, and Elizebeth S. Friedman at Riverbank
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, Sitting with Her Granddaughter, Barbara Friedman (10 Months)
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, Standing with her Grandson with her Great Grandson, Nathaniel Christopher Atchison
William F. Friedman’s Mother, Rosa Trust Friedman, with her son, Stanley Friedman, and Elizebeth S. Friedman
William F. Friedman’s Retirement Ceremony
William F. Friedman’s Retirement Ceremony
William Friedman Dressed for Sunday Company to the Farm
William Friedman Receives his GS-16 Certificate from Lieutenant General Ralph S. Canine

Collection Formats:

War Department Chiefs and Executives, October 19,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretary, General Staff, September 15,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretariat, General Staff, March 1,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Statistics Branch War Department General Staff organization chart
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Secretariat, War Department General Staff, June 7,
Call Number: GCM 7890 Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection, George C. Marshall Photographs

Photographs


Handshake after award from Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs


Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs

Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall


Newspaper clipping of Pershing attending Brown-Marshall Wedding, October 12,
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Notice of Marshall-Brown wedding


Invitation list to wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall, 1930
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Documents

Inivtation list to the wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall


Marshall Day at Virginia Military Institute, May 15,
Author: Virginia Military Institute
Collection: George C. Marshall Collection

Documents

Marshall Day Virginia Military Institute


Collection Number: 26 UL
Date: 1918, 1942-1969
Collection Size: 45 linear feet
 
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