Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Collection Overview
Louis L. McAllister photographed people and places near Burlington, Vermont for 60 years. He was born in Columbus, Nebraska on October 16, 1876, the son of Julius S. McAllister (born 1841 in Lincoln, VT) and Rosette Gould (born in Vermont in 1851). Julius McAllister worked as a photographer and dentist in Washington D.C., Bristol, Vermont and Columbus, Nebraska. Around 1895, Julius, his third wife Amy, and their children left Nebraska for the Union Soldiers’ Colony in Fitzgerald, Georgia. By 1900, Julius and Amy were divorced, and Amy and her stepson Louis were working as photographers in Thomasville, Georgia.
In 1907 Louis McAllister married Cora Shepard (born about 1872 in Vermont) in Holland, Michigan. By 1910, they were living in Queen City Park in South Burlington, Vermont, where Louis established a photography studio. The McAllisters moved to Burlington, and by 1919 they lived at 47 N. Winooski Avenue. They continued to occupy a summer cottage at Queen City Park, and were active in the Queen City Park Association, which held spiritualist camp meetings annually. McAllister conducted his photography business from home until his death in 1963.
McAllister’s “trademark” was his panorama camera which made him familiar to all sorts of groups ranging from graduating classes to state police to summer camp groups. In addition he did print 8 x 10 photos, many of which document building construction and Burlington Street Department projects, as well as group and individual portraits.
The L.L. McAllister Collection includes portraits, construction projects, buildings, businesses and events in the Burlington area covering the period ca. 1920-1960. The collection also includes photos of street, bridge, airport and sewer construction and repair, as well as group portraits of clubs, schools, etc.
Revised April, 2010
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Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Published: November 19, 2007, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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- Champlain, Lake [196]
- Burlington (Vt.) [53]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [32]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [12]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [11]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [11]
- Colchester (Vt.) [6]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [5]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [2]
- Queen City Park (South Burlington, Vt.) [2]
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- image [196]
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- black-and-white photographs [196]
- photographs [196]
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- Boats and boating [61]
- Ferries [57]
- Champlain Transportation Company [53]
- Warships [36]
- Ships [35]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [16]
- Girls [16]
- Ticonderoga (Steamship) [16]
- Steamboats [13]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [12]
- Boys [11]
- Bridges [8]
- Government vessels [7]
- Portrait photography [6]
- Construction projects [5]
- Buildings [3]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [3]
- Children [3]
- Machinery [3]
- Men [3]
- Nuns [3]
- Automobiles [2]
- Service stations [2]
- Sewage disposal [2]
- Tennis [2]
- Women [2]
- Athletics [1]
- Construction workers [1]
- Dance [1]
- Horses [1]
- Railroad tracks [1]
- Railroad trains [1]
- Snow removal [1]
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- Young men [1]
- Young women [1]
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Place: ("Champlain, Lake")
Genre: ("black-and-white photographs")
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 20, 1932. This photograph of the Burlington lake front is captioned: "Outfall end of new trunk line sewer. Old sewer shown on extreme right," Picture also shows brick building with smokestacks, automobiles, and railroad cars.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Burlington lake front looking out over a brick building with smokestack toward the breakwater where a boat is approaching. Railroad cars and tracks are also pictured.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 9, 1934. The Admiral and Oneida, two ferries, at anchor at the Burlington lake front.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 9, 1934. Photo #7. View from the south of Elisha Goodsell Dock at the Burlington lake front on Lake Champlain.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 3, 1932. Four men preparing a diver at the Burlington lake front on Lake Champlain.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 9, 1934. Photo #6. Elisha Goodsell Dock at the Burlington lake front from the west.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 21, 1944. This view shows the dumping area at the foot of College St. in front of the Central Vermont Freight House. The snow dumped the night before was being bulldozed over the front of the dock into the lake when this picture was taken. Several thousand cubic yards of snow were dumped at this point during the winter.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 20, 1932. Photo caption "Outfall end of new trunk line sewer; old sewer shown on extreme right." The date 1932 clearly seen on the upper portion. On the right edge of the photo is seen an old out of service trolley car.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 9, 1934. Photo #10. Elisha Goodsell Dock and three converted steam yachts (ferries) during winter at the Burlington lake front on Lake Champlain.
Title: Burlington Lakefront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932; 1934, undated; 1932; 1934, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 9, 1934. Photo #8. Goodsell Dock and ferry boat, Oneida, at the Burlington lake front on Lake Champlain.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944. Young campers gather on the dock while others swim and canoe in Lake Champlain at Camp Abnaki. Photo #7.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944. Young campers on the dock. The swim and canoe in Lake Champlain while at Camp Abnaki. Photo #8.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1943 photo of young campers swimming, diving, boating in Lake Champlain while at Camp Abnaki. Photo #14.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of a camp counselor on the dock and young boys nearby in the waters of Lake Champlain. Diving platform seen in the background. Photo #11.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of campers at Camp Abnaki in sail boats that are tied to the dock in Lake Champlain. Photo #9.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944. Campers learn swimming techniques in Lake Champlain. Each boy holds the head of a companion above water. Photo #34.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
circa 1944-1950 photo of Camp Abnaki counselors standing in Lake Champlain. They may also be swimming instructors. Photo #33.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944. Young campers gather on the dock while others swim and canoe in Lake Champlain at Camp Abnaki. Photo #9.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1943 photo of young campers swimming, diving, canoeing in Lake Champlain while camping at Camp Abnaki. Photo #15.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1943 photo of boys on the dock near a sailboat. Other campers are swimming, canoeing and diving in Lake Champlain while at Camp Abnaki. Photo #13.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1943 photo of boys on the dock near a sailboat. Other campers are swimming, canoeing and diving in Lake Champlain while at Camp Abnaki. Photo #16.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of campers lining the dock boarding a small cabin cruiser while at Camp Abnaki. Photo #6.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 photo of adult campers on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #31.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/1947 Some men and women relax on a dock by the shore while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #4.
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