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.) [17]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [1]
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- image [19]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [17]
- photographs [17]
Topic(s)
- Buses [19]
- Vermont Transit Company [8]
- Girls [4]
- Street photography [4]
- Burlington Rapid Transit Company [3]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [2]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Construction projects [2]
- Men [2]
- Stores, Retail [2]
- Traffic accidents [2]
- Women [2]
- Boys [1]
- Business [1]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [1]
- Camps [1]
- College students [1]
- Drugstores [1]
- Dwellings [1]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Young women [1]
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Topic: ("Buses")
Title: Burlington - Street Views
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945/1946 St. Paul Street, Burlington, Vermont showing store fronts. Extreme left is the Burlington Rapid Transit Company bus terminal at 137 St. Paul Street, a pool room, Sherwin Electric at 129, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at 123-125.
Title: Burlington Streets: North Street
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1930-08-25
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 25, 1930 view looking east along North Street and No. Champlain Street open to traffic 3PM. A Burlington Rapid Transit Company bus travels the intersection. To the left is 146 No. Champlain St druggist store owned by Eugene Gosselin. Beyond the bus in a tower of the old Lawrence Barnes School (No. 144 North Street)
Title: Burlington Streets: North Street
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1930-08-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 26, 1930. City street dept resurfacing project covering over the now unused trolley streetcar tracks. View of North St and Park St open to traffic 3PM. A Burlington Rapid Transit bus seen at center. Behind is 78 North Street, that in 1930 was a barber shop run by Thomas M. Khoury.
Title: Burlington Streets: North Street
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1930-08-25
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 25, 1930. Intersection of North St and Champlain St open to traffic 3PM. A Burlington Rapid Transit Company bus on its North End Loop route seen in the center. Eugene Gosselin Drug Store at 146 No. Champlain St. is on the right. Road has been resurfaced by the city street dept.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Campers and Families
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Young campers lined up outside a Vermont Transit Lines bus with counselor and bus driver at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated July 1944. Photo #32.
Title: Camps: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A photograph of two young girls in uniform and a slightly older young woman greeting two other girls who have just arrived with suitcases. It appears to be a promotional photo to perhaps a private or religious girls' school. A bus in the background has the word "academy" on the back of it. A brick building is to the right. Date and location unknown but could be from the 1950s or 1960s in late summer early autumn. Photo #9.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Mount St. Mary's Academy students standing beside a Green Mountaineer chartered bus. Suitcases are seen in front. Two nuns and the bus driver with the group. Photo #31.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Mount St. Mary's Academy students standing beside a Green Mountaineer chartered bus. Suitcases are seen in front. Two nuns and the bus driver with the group. Photo #32.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Mount St. Mary's Academy students standing beside a Green Mountaineer chartered bus. Suitcases are seen in front. Two nuns with the group. Photo #33.
Title: National Grange
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953; 1953
1953 photo of National Grange members with Trailways Tour bus in front of Burlington City Hall, corner of Church and Main Street, Burlington, Vt. Photo #4.
Title: National Grange
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953; 1953
1953 photo of National Grange members with Trailways Tour bus in front of Burlington City Hall, corner of Church and Main Street, Burlington, Vt. Photo #3.
Title: Trinity College - Sports & Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Trinity College students about to board a bus parked on Colchester Ave. Purpose and destination unknown. Grocery store in the background, at corner of East Ave. and Colchester, owned by Wiley F. Danforth (note "DA").
Title: Vermont Transit Co.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935. Photo of a Vermont Transit Co. bus at the bus barn, Riverside Ave, Burlington, Vermont. White Motor Company, deluxe model. On the side of the bus is the route that it made. The VTC logo is also seen. An open rack on the top of the bus to the rear for luggage.
Title: Vermont Transit Co.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a Vermont Transit Co. bus. The VTC logo is seen on the side of the bus along with spare tire. An open rack on the top of the bus to the rear for luggage. 1930?
Title: Vermont Transit Lines
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 1945. Rear end of Vermont Transit Lines bus, The Green Mountaineer 190, showing three licenses (common carrier, Vermont and ICC number)
Title: Vermont Transit Lines
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 1945. Side of Vermont Transit Lines bus, The Green Mountaineer 190. New England Greyhound Lines operator, Connecticut and New York. Seats 37, standees 12.
Title: Vermont Transit Lines
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 1945. Damaged side of Vermont Transit Lines bus, The Green Mountaineer 190.
Title: Vermont Transit Lines
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 1945. Damaged windows and driver's side front bumper of Vermont Transit Lines bus, The Green Mountaineer 190. VTC logo seen.
Title: Vermont Transit Lines
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 1945. Damaged front end of Vermont Transit Lines bus, The Green Mountaineer 190 showing license plate number 115 and plate "Public Service Vechicle 19 VT 45". Letters "acf" center beneath windshields.
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