The Marvin and Sharon Lewis Collection was donated by their daughter Shelly Felt in 2019 and is made up of personal, professional papers and other items spanning two centuries. The collection is broken up into six main series, of which five comprise one person and the last series encompasses the series Miscellaneous. Additionally, two boxes were added at the end of the collection to store oversized items. Quantitatively, the series of Junior Edward Rich and Oliver Marvin Lewis take up a lot space in the collection. Both individuals wrote letters during their deployment in World War II. Surgeon Junior E. Rich wrote to his wife Sarah Blanche Browning Rich and children letters from far away as China, while Marvin Lewis stayed in close contact with his parents Alfred Marion Lewis and Vera Carter Lewis. Marvin even took part in the Oral History project “Saving Legacy: An Oral History of Utah’s World War II Veterans” from the American West Center; the material is part of his series. An extraordinary feature of this collection is its geographical span. MS 490 includes items, like newspapers and photographs, from as far way as Asia, which especially Junior Edward Rich collected during his service in World War II. The Lewis and Rich families constitute prominent families in Ogden, Utah, which have been thematized in local newspapers and publicly honored in various ways for their engagement in the local community. Due to their big family, the collection holds items of their descendants as well as material referring to locals from Ogden. Therefore, the structure of this collection represents the connection between the individuals of these families.