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.) [74]
- Middlebury (Vt.) [9]
- Colchester (Vt.) [7]
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- image [94]
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- black-and-white photographs [86]
- photographs [86]
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- Chapels [94]
- Portrait photography [32]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [29]
- University of Vermont [26]
- Young women [21]
- Interior architecture [9]
- Middlebury College [9]
- Women [9]
- Nuns [8]
- Priests [8]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Architectural photography [7]
- Choirs (Music) [7]
- Church buildings [6]
- Fanny Allen Hospital [6]
- Marriage [6]
- Bridegrooms [5]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- College teachers [5]
- First communion [5]
- Men [5]
- Buildings [4]
- Christ the King School (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Flowers [4]
- Girls [4]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Musical groups [3]
- Street photography [3]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [2]
- Choruses [2]
- Construction projects [2]
- Nurses [2]
- Automobiles [1]
- Bands (Music) [1]
- Construction workers [1]
- High school students [1]
- Landscape photography [1]
- Musicians [1]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Saint Michael's College (Colchester, Vt.) [1]
- Service stations [1]
- Statues [1]
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Topic: ("Chapels")
Title: Burlington Streets: University Place
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 09-17
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
September 17, 1928. Road construction of curbs along University Place looking from Pearl Street. Ira Allen Chapel is to the left with Billings just beyond that. To the right is the main University of Vermont green.
Title: Burlington Streets: Willard Street
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1940; 10-29
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
October 29, 1940. This view shows the sidewalk improvement by the Burlington Street Dept. under construction at a point opposite All Saints' Chapel on South Willard Street opposite the Texaco Filling Station. Note the forms being placed for reconstructing the concrete steps leading to the Chapel, also the large amount of grading and excavating being done on the area between the new sidewalk and the curb; also the terrace back of the sidewalk. The dark area in the foreground is resurfacing of the shoulder of the street where the curb had been reset and the street widened in front of the old house which for many years obstructed the view at this point and extended into the street several feet causing an angle in the curb at this point. This house was removed to provide for the new Shell Filling Station.
Title: Christ the King School - First Communion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Christ the King School - First Communion 1958. Photo #3.
Title: Christ the King School - First Communion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Christ the King School - First Communion 1958. Photo #2.
Title: Christ the King School - First Communion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Christ the King School - First Communion 1958. Photo #1.
Title: Christ the King School - First Communion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Christ the King School - First Communion undated. Photo #2.
Title: Christ the King School - First Communion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Christ the King School - First Communion undated. Photo #3.
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Msgr. Fitzsimons (left) gathered with several formally dressed young women and a small boy and girl. They stand before a statue of the Virgin Mary in a chapel. Photo #2. Undated but may be 1950s.
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
[1955?] photo of a woman kneeling in prayer near an altar in a chapel at Christ the King School or at Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont. Same labeled photo mcalA18F05i23 as Trinity College and mcalB12F19i02 labeled as Mount St. Mary's Academy (1955).
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
[1955?] photo of a woman kneeling in prayer near an altar in a chapel at Christ the King School or at Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont. Same labeled photo mcalA18F05i23 as Trinity College and mcalB12F19i02 labeled as Mount St. Mary's Academy (1955).
Title: Churches, Identified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
All Saints Chapel. St. Paul's Parish. Burlington. Located on South Willard Street. Undated photo. Current site of the Greek Orthodox Church Dormition of the Mother of God at 600 South Willard.
Title: Churches, Identified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior photo of St. Joseph Orphanage Chapel before it was remodeled in 1967.
Title: Congregational Church - Choirs - Childrens
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of children's choir outside in front of the First Church's chapel building. Photo 1.
Title: Congregational Church, First - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Staff members of the church include (back row) Rev. George W. Lawrence, Jr (Associate Minister) and Rev. Charles Stanley Jones, DD (Minister). Second from left is Cora Prior, next to her is Fanny Edgarton, then Helen Best and Prudence B. They stand outside in front of the chapel next to the main church building. May be 1950s.
Title: Congregational Church, First - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A photo of church staff. In the back, to the far left is Carlton Twitchell (church maintenance), the taller man is Rev. George W. Lawrence, Jr. (Associate Minister). 2nd row is Fanny Edgerton, Prudence B., Julia Smith Salmon (Choir). Front row is Rev. Charles Stanley Jones with Cora Prior 2nd from right and Helen Best on the far right. Outside the chapel next to the main church building. 1950s.
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 - School of Nursing Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the interior of the Fanny Allen Hospital School of Nursing Chapel. Photo #5.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - School of Nursing Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the interior of the Fanny Allen Hospital School of Nursing Chapel. Photo #8.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - School of Nursing Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 photo of the interior of the Fanny Allen Hospital School of Nursing Chapel. Close up of the altar.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - School of Nursing Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the interior of the Fanny Allen Hospital School of Nursing Chapel. Photo #6.
Title: McAllister Portraits
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of Louis McAllister on his step ladder with his tall tripod as he steadies his camera ready to take a photograph. He is in front of Billings Library on the University of Vermont campus; Ira Allen Chapel is in the background.
Title: McAllister Portraits
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of Louis McAllister on his step ladder with his tall tripod as he steadies his camera ready to take a photograph. He is in front of Billings Library on the University of Vermont campus; Ira Allen Chapel is in the background.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of men outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #9.
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