The Lewis E. Tullis Photograph Collection is comprised of six photographic reprints, five with captions from Lewis Tullis, that depict emergency response vehicles at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada from approximately 1970 to 1984.
The Lewis E. Tullis Photograph Collection is comprised of six photographic reprints, five with captions from Lewis Tullis, that depict emergency response vehicles at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada from approximately 1970 to 1984.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Materials remain as they were received.
Lewis Eugene Tullis was the youngest of seven children born to David and Aroetta Tullis on September 3, 1935 in Hinckley, Utah. Lewis was a career firefighter and worked in the Clark County Fire and Rescue Department from 1956 until he retired as a captain in 1993. After he retired, Tullis moved to Utah and passed away on July 5, 2012.
Source:
"Lewis Tullis Obituary."
Lewis E. Tullis Photograph Collection, approximately 1970-1984. PH-00187. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated UNLV Special Collections and Archives in 1984 by Lewis Tullis; accession number 84-47.
In 2020, as part of a backlog elimination project, Joseph Puentes created the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.