Shooting - Stabbing, Poly Western;1) girl who was held hostage being comforted by ambulance crew - 2) man shot by police on floor, then on stretcher - 3) Wounded policeman identified as Off. John Scales, 1972 December 13

The Richard Childress Photograph Collection consists of 32 boxes of more than 20,600 photographs. The collection includes prints and film negatives dating from late 1950s before Childress joined the Baltimore Sun, to 1984, the year he died. Childress covered virtually everything newsworthy for the Sun: protests, sports, social and cultural events, politics, automobile accidents, house fires, fairs, festivals, and parades, military events, and more.

The collection is broken down into 18 series. Series I – IX contain photographic prints. Series X – XVIII contain negatives.