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
Related Archival Collection(s)
Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Published: November 19, 2007, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
Rights: Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the UVM Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives at cdi@uvm.edu. For more information, see http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights. More information.
Browse Options
Creator(s)
Place(s)
- Colchester (Vt.) [137]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [31]
- Burlington (Vt.) [28]
- Champlain, Lake [6]
Format(s)
- image [137]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [137]
- photographs [137]
Topic(s)
- Portrait photography [71]
- Men [52]
- Women [31]
- Bridges [30]
- Heineberg Bridge (Chittenden County, Vt.) [29]
- Buildings [15]
- Construction projects [15]
- Priests [11]
- Camp Holy Cross (Vt.) [10]
- College students [9]
- Chapels [7]
- Landscape photography [7]
- Soldiers [6]
- Dwellings [5]
- Nuns [5]
- Interior architecture [4]
- Camping [3]
- Gymnasiums [3]
- Animals [2]
- College graduates [2]
- Quarries and quarrying [2]
- Veterans [2]
- Automobiles [1]
- Camps [1]
- Canoes and canoeing [1]
- Classrooms [1]
- College teachers [1]
- Gardens [1]
- Service stations [1]
- Street photography [1]
- Traffic accidents [1]
-
- | 1 - 25 of 137 |
-
- Thumbnails | List
Browsing by:
Place: ("Colchester (Vt.)")
Title: Buildings: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
White building with clerestory windows in landscape. Marble Island (Lake Champlain Club?) Colchester, VT See also mcalB10F25i05 and mcalB10F25i03
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #4.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer 1958. Group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Photo #4.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer 1958. Group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Photo #5.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer 1937. Group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #3.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957-1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957/1958. Group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #2.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #4.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #2.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer 1959 group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #?
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer 1959 group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #3.
Title: Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957-1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957/1958 group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #3.
Title: Champlain, Lake
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View from Marble Island Clubhouse, Colchester, Vt. Seen is an island from a grassy area near the shoreline. A tree is seen in the center of the photo. Date unknown.
Title: Colchester, Rt. 7
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of an automobile accident looking towards Sunderland Hollow, Colchester, Vermont. Undated but may be 1930s.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/1947 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #1.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #2.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/1947 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #3.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/1947 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #8.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/1947 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #5.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #6.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of a group of nurses standing outside on steps. Photo #4.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949-1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949/1950 photo of a group of nurses gathered inside for a group picture. Photo #1.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 photo of eleven nurse graduates gathered for a group picture. Each carries a holder with a white lit candle. Location Fanny Allen Hospital chapel. Photo #1.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 photo of eleven nurse graduates gathered for a group picture. Each carries a holder with a white lit candle. Location Fanny Allen Hospital chapel.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of five individual formal portrait photographs of nurses.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 portrait photo of nurse graduates gathered with three nuns. Graduates each wear a corsage and hold diploma.
-
- | 1 - 25 of 137 |
-
- Thumbnails | List