Lutz buys a wide range of Vietnam War related materials. He is particularly seeking:
- Materials by American women in Vietnam, such as nurses.
- Materials by the North Vietnamese leaders, such as Ho Chi Minh, General Giap and Le Duan.
- Original photographs and films, both “in country” and domestic.
- Carried through the jungle diaries.
- Materials from Ho Chi Minh’s 1919 visit to the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in Paris.
- Pro-war materials.
- Soldier letters written from Hue during the brutal fighting or Khe Sanh during the famous siege.
- Anti-war artifacts from the American South.
- Artifacts related to the African-American or the Hispanic experience in Vietnam.
- Items from the USS Maddox’s 1964 cruise in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The only materials Lutz does not acquire are uniforms, helmets and weapons. He also does not buy Sixties concert posters, Woodstock tickets, etc.