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.) [290]
- Winooski (Vt.) [10]
- Champlain, Lake [2]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [1]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [1]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [1]
Format(s)
- image [415]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [363]
- photographs [363]
Topic(s)
- Business [415]
- Buildings [147]
- Stores, Retail [84]
- Employees [83]
- Street photography [56]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [32]
- Service stations [32]
- Automobiles [28]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [28]
- Construction projects [26]
- High school students [23]
- Trucks [23]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [20]
- Construction workers [20]
- Department stores [20]
- Women [20]
- Architectural photography [19]
- S.S. Kresge Company [13]
- Family [12]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [11]
- Offices [11]
- Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.) [9]
- Dwellings [9]
- Restaurants [9]
- Exhibit booths [8]
- Exhibitions [8]
- Auditoriums [7]
- Boats and boating [7]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Drugstores [7]
- Bank buildings [6]
- Beauty operators [5]
- Painting [5]
- Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc [5]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Convenience stores [4]
- Cosmetics [4]
- Dolls [4]
- Street-railroad tracks [4]
- Trailers [4]
- A.M. Kidder & Co., Inc [3]
- Animals [3]
- Billboards [3]
- Boys [3]
- Church buildings [3]
- Gas ovens [3]
- Manufacturing and Tool Corp. [3]
- Railroad tracks [3]
- Refrigerators [3]
- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [2]
- Airplanes [2]
- Burlington International Airport [2]
- Cows [2]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Furniture [2]
- Hotels [2]
- House furnishings [2]
- Landscape photography [2]
- Oil storage tanks [2]
- Puppets [2]
- Stoves [2]
- Toys [2]
- Van Ness House [2]
- Burlington Federal Savings [1]
- Burlington Rapid Transit Company [1]
- Buses [1]
- Children [1]
- Christmas greens [1]
- Dairying Equipment and supplies [1]
- Farms [1]
- Flowers [1]
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Horses [1]
- Infants [1]
- Railroad trains [1]
- Snow removal [1]
- Street signs [1]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Tank trucks [1]
- Theaters [1]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [1]
- Urban parks [1]
- Vergennes Inn (Vt.) [1]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [1]
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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: A.M. Kidder & Co.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 or 1952 display booth - A.M. Kidder & Co., Burlington, VT, an investment firm.
Title: A.M. Kidder & Co.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950s display booth - A.M. Kidder & Co., Burlington, VT; an investment firm.
Title: A.M. Kidder & Co., Burlington, VT
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950s display booth - A.M. Kidder & Co., Burlington, VT; an investment firm.
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1929-1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a car dealership show room. Large sign in the background to the left reads Lincoln Zephyr ; 1935/36?
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of a Chrysler DeSoto car dealership show room. 1948/50?
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of a Chrysler DeSoto car dealership show room. 1948/1950
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (D-G)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
C.H. Goss Co., car dealership of Dodge Plymouth at 237 North Ave. A dump truck and a George C. Stanley & Sons asphalt tank truck are seen parked out front. Dates 1945-1958.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (D-G)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
C.H. Goss Co. 237 North Ave. with a George C. Stanley & Sons asphalt tank truck parked in front. Dates 1945-1958. Fall-Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (D-G)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 1, 1952. Gulf gas service station at the corner of Pearl Street and North Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt. Young's drug store seen to the left. Summer-Fall.
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: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Photo of a delivery truck and Frank Patnaude at Patnaude's owned by F.E. Patnaude located at 1 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt. Used cars, service and dealership for Lincoln Muercury cars. Fall.
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: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Interior photo of parts department of Nash Motors. Royer Motor Co. 173 St. Paul, Burlington, Vt. Photo #1.
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: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Interior photo of parts department of Nash Motors. Royer Motor Co. 173 St. Paul, Burlington, Vt. Photo #5.
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