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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- Burlington (Vt.) [84]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [46]
- Winooski (Vt.) [8]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [2]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [2]
- Williston (Vt.) [2]
- Kamp Kill Kare (Vt.) [1]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [1]
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- image [181]
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- black-and-white photographs [181]
- photographs [181]
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- Employees [181]
- Business [66]
- Portrait photography [59]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [45]
- Buildings [35]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [11]
- Construction workers [10]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [10]
- Hospitals [9]
- Restaurants [9]
- Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Offices [8]
- Service stations [8]
- Trucks [8]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Urban parks [7]
- Architectural photography [6]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Interior architecture [5]
- Nurses [5]
- Quarries and quarrying [5]
- Stores, Retail [5]
- Young men [5]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Camps [3]
- Children [3]
- Factories [3]
- Flag raising and lowering [3]
- Gas ovens [3]
- Young women [3]
- Boys [2]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [2]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- College students [2]
- Construction projects [2]
- Furniture [2]
- High school students [2]
- Landscape photography [2]
- Sand and gravel mines and mining [2]
- Sideshows [2]
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- Cows [1]
- Department stores [1]
- Dwellings [1]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Family [1]
- High school athletes [1]
- Nuns [1]
- Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc [1]
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- Refuse and refuse disposal [1]
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Genre: ("black-and-white photographs")
Topic: ("Employees")
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Employees and delivery truck in front of used car dealership and service station owned by Frank E. Patnaude; Lincoln, Mercury, used cars. 1 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1939 Herberg Auto Service Inc. located at 137-139 South Winooski Ave. and 204-206 Main Street, Burlington, Vt. George M and Donald R. Herberg, owners and executives. Fall-Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Herberg Auto Service Inc. 204-206 Main Street location in Burlington, Vt. George M. and Donald R. Herberg owners and executives. Window above advertises New York Life Insurance (located at 200 Main) Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Employees and delivery truck in front of used car dealership and service station owned by Frank E. Patnaude; Lincoln, Mercury, used cars. Garages at 1 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 Employees of Herberg Auto Service Inc. listed as being located at 137-139 S. Winooski Ave. and 204-206 Main Street, Burlington. George M and Donald R Herberg owners and executives. Fall-Spring.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 Employees of Herberg Auto Service Inc. listed as being at 137-139 S. Winooski Ave. and 204-206 Main Street, Burlington. Fall-Spring.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Employees of Herberg Auto Service listed as being at 137-139 S. Winooski Ave. and 204-206 Main Street, Burlington, Vt. Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of two Yandow Motor Company employees. Located at 11-15 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 / 1936 photo of a Chevrolet car dealership with employees standing out front. Could this be Shearer located in Burlington on S. Winooski Ave?
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A Shell gas station attendant wipes the windshield of a Plymouth automobile. Date and location unknown.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/37 Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Employees and management stand out front for a group photo. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The State Theatre is next door at 156. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the rest of the block.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/37 Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Interior photo. Employees and management stand for a group photo. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the rest of the block.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/37 Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Interior photo. Employees and management stand for a group photo. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the rest of the block.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Photo No. 3. Employees and management assemble for a group photo outside in front. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the rest of the block. Dated 1937.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/37 Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Employees and management stand outside in front for a group photo. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the rest of the block. Photo #5.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/37 Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Employees and management assemble outside in front for a group photo. Photo #3. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the State Theatre and the rest of the block. Photo #3.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/37 Black Cat Cafe & Sea Grill at 160 Bank St, Burlington, Vermont. Interior photo showing staff and management personnel along with booths, several padded chairs, coat rack and stairs in the back leading upstairs. Charles Chantis, proprietor. The restaurant burned in the 1970s along with the rest of the block. Photo #1.
Title: Black Cat Cafe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1930s interior view of the upper banquet room set up for dining at the Black Cat Cafe once located at 160 Bank St in Burlington, Vt. Tables and wait staff are ready for business.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 Employees work on the assembly line of the oven manufacturing firm G. S. Blodgett Co., Inc. located at 50 Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Advertised as being "the largest industrial oven manufacturing concern in the world"
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 An employee of the G. S. Blodgett Co. works on an industrial oven on the assembly line at the manufacturing plant located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Workshop machinery seen in the background.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 View of the assembly line at the G. S. Blodgett Co., manufacturer of industrial ovens as employees work on assembling the body of the stove. Located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 An employee of the G. S. Blodgett Co., manufacturer of industrial ovens is seen working with a hose on one of the double deck ovens. Located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Photo #4.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 Employees of the G. S. Blodgett Co., manufacturer of industrial ovens are seen welding parts of the oven body on the assembly line. Located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 An employee of the G. S. Blodgett Co., manufacturer of industrial ovens, is seen working on the body of an oven on the assembly line. Located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1949 Employees weld parts of an industrial oven being manufactured on the assembly line at the G. S. Blodgett Co., Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
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