Edward “Ed” F. Fletcher (1913-1990) was a resident of DC, a father, a husband, government worker, and a professional freelance photographer whose works appeared in periodicals such as the Pittsburgh Courier, Baltimore Afro-American, and The Chicago Defender. In 1937, he was one of the founders of the FotoCraft Club, and, in 1946, helped found the Allied Photographers Association of America.

He was one of the founders of the FotoCraft Club (later named FotoCraft Camera Club) in 1937 and the Allied Photographers Association of America in 1946. Fletcher worked at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1953 to 1971, but continued to shoot independent projects throughout the city. The collection was donated to the Library by his daughter and consists of thousands of negatives and prints documenting African American life in DC.