Simpson United Methodist Church, 16901 Hardy Road, Mount Airy (high contrast), 2009

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.