Fletcher Family Digital Collection on Solitude

Title

Fletcher Family Digital Collection on Solitude

Subject

Solitude (Blacksburg, Va.: Historic building)
Blacksburg (Va.)
Montgomery County (Va.)
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University History

Description

Members of the Fletcher family lived at Solitude from 1908-1914. This collection of materials includes scanned photographs, scrapbook pages, a short memoir, and a genealogy.

Rights

Special Collections and University Archives does not hold these original materials. Digital reproductions were provided for exhibit purposes only. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en

Format

image/jpg; application/pdf

Language

English

Type

Photographs
Genealogies
Memoirs

Identifier

Fletcher_

Bibliographic Citation

[item], Fletcher Family Digital Collection on Solitude, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Rights Holder

Contact Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, for more information.

Collection Tree

Fletcher_SFletcher_Memoir.pdf

Memoir by Stevenson W. and Margaret R. Fletcher about their lives from 1908-1914, including living at Solitude, the birth of several of their…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_SpringHouse_nd.jpg

Photograph of the spring house at Solitude. Although undated, this would have been taken sometime when the Fletchers lived at the house, likely some…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_SolitudeLawn_1911_11.jpg

Photograph of Margaret, Robert, Richard, and Stevenson Fletcher on the Solitude lawn. This photograph was taken after a snow and has the Duck Pond in…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_SolitudeLawn_1909_07.jpg

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn with a caretaker, July 1909. The caption reads "Playing on Solitude lawn with nurse…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_SolitudeLawn_1908_12.jpg

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn, December 1908. The Fletchers moved into Solitude in November 1908.
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_SolitudeKindergarten_1913_06.jpg

Photograph of a kindergarten class on the lawn of Solitude, June 1913, labeled "Miss Rosa's kindergarten, at Solitude. June, 1913."
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage08_1913-1914.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1913 and 1914. Photographs include exteriors and…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage07_1912-1913.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1913. Photographs include kindergarten on the Solitude…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage06_1911-1912.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1911 and 1912. Photographs include Main Street in…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage05_1910.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1910. Photographs include Fishersville, Va., and…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage04_1909.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1909 and 1910. Photographs including the lawn and spring…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage03_1908.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1908 and 1909. Photographs include the Fletcher children…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage02_1908.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from the first year the family lived at Solitude. Images include a family…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_ScrapbookPage01_1908.jpg

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from the first year the family lived at Solitude. Images include pictures…
Fletcher_RFletcherPhotos_Family_1913_03.jpg

Photograph of the Fletcher family in March 1913. This photo has two captions: "Peter born Jan. 18, 1913" and "The family carry-all, March 1913. 'Black…
Fletcher_RFletcher_Carving_Solitude_nd.JPG

Photograph of a wood carving representation of Solitude by a member of the Fletcher family. This is likely a representation of te December 1908…
Fletcher_JSFletcher_genealogy.jpg

Genealogy chart of John Stevenson Fletcher, including members of the Reynolds, Frizzell, Rolston, and Fletcher families

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