Agnes Meyer Driscoll Pictures

There are a dearth of pictures of this seminal American codebreaker available.  The originals are better than the selections below; they're just high-quality screenshots taken from The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll (pdf here; use this contact form to request a free hardcopy).

As such, they are in the public domain. 

I've posted them since they might help someone who needs a picture, and doesn't have time to contact the publisher, The Center for Cryptologic History.

Age 13

Hall of Honor photo

Age 21

Yeoman First Class Agnes Meyer

Agnes Driscoll, mid-1920s

Agnes Driscoll, probably mid-1920s

Agnes Driscoll, probably mid-1920s, close-up

Agnes Driscoll, late 1920s

Agnes Driscoll, circa 1932

Agnes Driscoll, mid-1930s

Agnes Driscoll, 1958

Agnes Driscoll, 1963

Hope these prove useful.  (As always, I also hope they help this woman get the recognition she has long deserved.)

February 9, 2024: I put everything I could find out into the biography linked in the opening paragraph above.  I'm sorry I wasn't able to find out anything else that isn't in there...but I didn't. 

Across the Worlds with Aimee and Phineas

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A train, stopped on the western plains.  A man rides up, on a horse he'd better relinquish.  A struggle on board the train; a woman of surprising, even superhuman abilities, and an unconscious man.
Who is this woman, named Aimee?  For that matter, who is the man who comes to her rescue, named Phineas?  How is it her train can travel to parallel worlds?  Who are the people who attacked her train?

"Beware of false friends, and false enemies."  A world called "Aryan Trans-Atlantic."  "Sumer is icumen in."

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Agnes Meyer Driscoll: Marking History

The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll was published by the Center for Cryptologic History in 2015.  It won an award around that same time.  Now, it's made an impact, on 22 July 2017.  A visible impact.

Driscoll spent most of her formative years in Westerville, Ohio, near Columbus; The Neglected Giant gave the address of her childhood home. Some history-minded Ohioans noticed, and decided to do something about it:

I found out about the historical marker when one of the movers and shakers behind it commented on this blog:

I enjoyed your work on Agnes that I did a short (amateurish) video for our local Field Of Heroes we do for Memorial Day in 2016. We were honoring Women in the Military.

That and the work of many others has turned into Agnes being recognized by the Ohio Historical Society and a plaque being erected in front of one of her childhood homes here in Westerville.

If you search my name on YouTube hopefully you can find the video, and there are photos of the ceremony on Facebook at @WestervilleHistory.

Feel free to contact me directly if you would like to know more... thank you for doing this. The impact from your work has been wonderful here.

Driscoll's work in breaking codes, including her contributions against the Japanese JN-25, which helped win the turning-point Battle of Midway, made a mark in history, but that work has largely not received the recognition that it no doubt should have.  I'm not just pleased that Ohio chose to highlight the history made by one of its own, I'm thrilled I helped this happen.

Her grandnephew Capt. Victor Meyer, USN (ret.), pictured, was among those I interviewed in the researching The Neglected Giant.  His pride in his relative was evident then, and visible now.