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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Place(s)
- Burlington (Vt.) [624]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [41]
- Winooski (Vt.) [38]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [23]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [22]
- Queen City Park (South Burlington, Vt.) [17]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [17]
- Colchester (Vt.) [15]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [12]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [7]
- Williston (Vt.) [7]
- Champlain, Lake [5]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [5]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [3]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [2]
- Middlebury (Vt.) [2]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [1]
- Camp MacArthur (Vt.) [1]
- Essex Junction (Vt.) [1]
- Montpelier (Vt.) [1]
- Waitsfield (Vt.) [1]
Format(s)
- image [1053]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [981]
- photographs [981]
Topic(s)
- Buildings [1053]
- Architectural photography [330]
- Construction projects [229]
- Business [147]
- Dwellings [132]
- Men [70]
- Landscape photography [59]
- Burlington International Airport [57]
- Machinery [54]
- Women [54]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [52]
- Housing [48]
- University of Vermont [47]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [47]
- Automobiles [46]
- Employees [39]
- Stores, Retail [38]
- Construction workers [37]
- Camps [34]
- Nazareth School (Burlington, Vt.) [32]
- Department stores [31]
- Priests [30]
- St. Joseph School (Burlington, Vt.) [28]
- S.S. Kresge Company [27]
- Students [27]
- Bridges [24]
- Young women [24]
- Service stations [23]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [23]
- United StatesPublic Works Administration. [21]
- Auditoriums [19]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [16]
- Girls [15]
- Trucks [15]
- Class reunions [14]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [12]
- College students [12]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [12]
- Young men [12]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [11]
- Railroad tracks [11]
- Rivers [11]
- Museums [10]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [10]
- Animals [9]
- Banners [9]
- Boats and boating [9]
- Gymnasiums [9]
- Bank buildings [8]
- Camping [8]
- Manufacturing and Tool Corp. [8]
- Nuns [8]
- Sand and gravel mines and mining [8]
- Waste disposal sites [8]
- Barns [7]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- College graduates [7]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Factories [7]
- Family [7]
- Nurses [7]
- Church buildings [6]
- Furniture [6]
- High school graduates [6]
- Painting [6]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [6]
- Shelburne Museum [6]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Flood damage [5]
- Hotels [5]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [5]
- Advertising [4]
- American Legion [4]
- Chapels [4]
- Christmas greens [4]
- College teachers [4]
- General Electric Company [4]
- House furnishings [4]
- Musicians [4]
- Reunions [4]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Theaters [4]
- Urban parks [4]
- Bands (Music) [3]
- Boys [3]
- Bridegrooms [3]
- Brides [3]
- Cake [3]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [3]
- Exhibit booths [3]
- Farms [3]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Horses [3]
- Motels [3]
- Oil storage tanks [3]
- Street signs [3]
- Street-railroad tracks [3]
- Trailers [3]
- Airplanes [2]
- Buses [2]
- Cafeterias [2]
- Chairs [2]
- Children [2]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Convenience stores [2]
- Dance [2]
- Drugstores [2]
- Farmhouses [2]
- First communion [2]
- Middlebury College [2]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [2]
- Musical groups [2]
- Railroad trains [2]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [2]
- School children [2]
- Snow removal [2]
- Soldiers [2]
- Totem poles [2]
- United Service Organizations (U.S.) [2]
- United StatesWork Projects Administration. [2]
- Worship programs [2]
- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [1]
- Actors [1]
- American Red Cross [1]
- Baseball [1]
- Boy Scouts [1]
- Burlington Federal Savings [1]
- Cathedral High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Costume [1]
- Cows [1]
- DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Dolls [1]
- Drum majorettes [1]
- Exhibitions [1]
- Gardens [1]
- Greek letter societies [1]
- Handicraft [1]
- High school athletes [1]
- High school buildings [1]
- High school students [1]
- High school teachers [1]
- Lighthouses [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- Sewage disposal [1]
- St. Anthony Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Tank trucks [1]
- Tennis [1]
- Van Ness House [1]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [1]
- Weddings [1]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [1]
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Topic: ("Buildings")
Title: A.D. Pease Grain Co.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A 1951/1952 photograph of the A. D. Pease Grain Co. located at the foot of College Street, Burlington.
Title: American Legion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
American Legion building. Listed in the city and telephone directories as being on Malletts Bay Ave. in Winooski in the 1940s. The large painted brick building is seen here adorned with patriotic buntings and banners. 1945/1947?
Title: American Legion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
American Legion building. Listed in the city and telephone directories as being on Malletts Bay Ave. in Winooski in the 1940s. The large painted brick building is seen here adorned with patriotic buntings and banners. 1945/1947?
Title: American Legion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
American Legion building. Listed in the city and telephone directories as being on Malletts Bay Ave. in Winooski in the 1940s. The large painted brick building is seen here adorned with patriotic buntings and banners. 1945/1947?
Title: American Legion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
American Legion meal ; 1945/1947? Photo no. 1.
Title: American Red Cross
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Window display of the American Red Cross encouraging Americans to give. Large central poster shows a young child in the Philippines carrying a Christmas package sent by the American Junior Red Cross. 1947?
Title: Automobile Wrecks & Wreckers
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a Hope & Son wrecker transporting an unidentified building.
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: 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 (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 The 204-206 Main Street, Burlington, Vt. location of Herberg Auto Service Inc. Window above advertises New York Life Insurance located at 200 Main. Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Charles P. Smith, Jr. Inc. located at 87 St. near College Street. Car dealership for Ford, Lincoln-Zephyr and Mercury cars. Next door and to the far right is the First Baptist Church at 81 St. Paul.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 Yandow Motor Co. located at 11-15 So Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Pontiac motor car sales, show room and service. Harry A. Yandow, proprietor.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 Yandow Motor Co. located at 11-15 So Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Pontiac motor car sales, show room and service. Harry A. Yandow, proprietor. Spring
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Fall. Burlington, Vt. garage Nash Motors. Royer Motor Co. 173 St. Paul.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 Yandow Motor Co. located at 11-15 So Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Pontiac motor cars sales, show room and service. Harry A. Yandow, proprietor.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Night time image of C. P. Smith service station. An outdoor lighted Christmas green near the gas pumps.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Shearer Chevrolet, Inc., car dealership 129 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt. Summer, Fall, Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Shearer Chevrolet, 129 So. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt car dealership
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Shearer Chevrolet, car dealership and service. 129 So. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Burlington garages Summer, Fall, Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Yandow Motor and Tire Co. 11-15 S. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Charles P. Smith, Ford dealership. Near College Street at 87 St Paul Street. To the right is the First Baptist Church, Burlington at 81 St. Paul St.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947. Nash car dealership. Burlington garage. 173 St. Paul St., Burlington, Vermont. Royer Motor Company.
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