Eliot Wittenberg served in the U.S. military in China at the close of World War II. The Eliot and Hazel Wittenberg Collection documents his work as a control tower operator through photographs and souvenir ephemera he brought back from China.

Richard Wyatt lived in China during the 1930s, and was an active member of the Boy Scouts Association in Shanghai. As part of the Seventh Shanghai Rovers troop, Wyatt became one of the most highly decorated Scouts in Shanghai troop history, earning the highest level of badges available to Scouts at that time. The collection consists of the shirt from Wyatt’s Boy Scout uniform, which also includes the numerous badges and cords awarded to Wyatt.