Faulkner Ridge Path - Columbia, MD (color), 1972
Dates
- 1972
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
From the Collection: 23.29 Linear Feet (21 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Scope and Contents
The Donald Reichle Photograph Collection contains 21 boxes of 1979 photographs and other materials. Reichle worked in black and white and color and also produced sepia toned and high contrast black and white images.
The collection is broken down into three Series:
Series I: Negatives and Slides (Box 1 – 5)
This series consists of 35mm slides and 35mm, 4x5, and 8x10 negatives. The bulk of the series dates from the 1970s. Some negatives correspond to prints found in Series II.
Series II: Prints (Box 6 – 20)
Series II consists of 16 x 20, 11 x 14 and 18 x 24 prints. Most are matted. There are also reference prints created by Donald Reichle. Many have corresponding 16 x 20, 11 x 14 or 18 x 24 prints, but a substantial number do not. Reference prints are located in box 6. These include paper prints as well as two CDs of digital files of most of the prints created by Donald Reichle.(for reference only)
The series is broken down into subseries by county or other location:
Subseries I: Anne Arundel County
Subseries II: Baltimore City
Subseries III: Baltimore County
Subseries IV: Carroll County
Subseries V: Cecil County
Subseries VI: Dorchester County
Subseries VII: Frederick County
Subseries VIII: Harford County
Subseries IX: Howard County
Subseries X: "One Day in September - A Pictorial History: Main Street, Ellicott City, Maryland, Photographed on September 29, 2009"
Subseries XI: Montgomery County
Subseries XII: Prince George’s County
Subseries XIII: Saint Mary’s County
Subseries XIV: Talbot County
Subseries XV: Washington County
Subseries XVI: Non-Maryland and other
Series III: Engineering Materials (Box 21)
Series III consists of materials related to Donald Reichle’s work as an engineer, electro-mechanical designer, and photographer at Fairchild Hiller, NASA and the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Items include one album of brochures, slides, photographs and other materials.
There are also some example of the earliest integrated circuit designs used by NASA that Reichle had a hand in designing, and some examples of “tubular extendable elements” co-invented by Donald Reichle. The design was used on the antenna of the first Radio Astronomy Explorer spacecraft, Explorer 38, launched on July 4, 1968.
Creator
- From the Collection: Reichle, Donald W., 1936-2014 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org