[1][2][3] Robert De Witt Fitch was born on July 20, 1939, in Los Angeles, California.
His father was a minister with the United Church of Christ and professor of Christian ethics.
[1] Early in his career, Fitch served as an intern at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco.
Fitch worked at the California Department of Housing and Community Development and at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, in Sacramento and Santa Cruz.
The archive is described as containing "over 200,000 images, primarily black and white photographs and negatives, spanning the period from 1965 to the present.