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.) [147]
- Battery Park (Vt.) [10]
- Winooski (Vt.) [7]
- Champlain, Lake [3]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [2]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [2]
- South Burlington (Vt.) [2]
- Milton (Vt.) [1]
- Queen City Park (South Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [1]
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- image [275]
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- black-and-white photographs [275]
- photographs [275]
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- Children [275]
- Portrait photography [141]
- Women [90]
- Family [54]
- Men [52]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [24]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [20]
- Choirs (Music) [19]
- Girls [18]
- Worship programs [18]
- Dwellings [16]
- House furnishings [16]
- Musical groups [16]
- Urban parks [16]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [16]
- Boys [15]
- Banners [14]
- Veterans [14]
- Bands (Music) [12]
- Christmas greens [12]
- Brides [11]
- Weddings [11]
- Young women [11]
- Salvation Army [10]
- Bridegrooms [9]
- Chapels [9]
- Dolls [9]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [9]
- Santa Claus [9]
- Students [9]
- School children [8]
- Classrooms [7]
- Flag raising and lowering [7]
- Infants [6]
- Gymnasiums [5]
- Interior architecture [5]
- Toys [5]
- Furniture [4]
- Marriage [4]
- Musicians [4]
- Soldiers [4]
- Young men [4]
- Animals [3]
- Automobiles [3]
- Camping [3]
- Cathedral Grammar School (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Costume [3]
- Employees [3]
- Nuns [3]
- Radio stations [3]
- Tap dancers [3]
- Auditoriums [2]
- Blackface entertainers [2]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [2]
- Christmas pageants [2]
- Dance recitals [2]
- Factories [2]
- First United Methodist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Handicraft [2]
- Mater Christi School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Saint John Vianney Parish (South Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- South Burlington Central School (Vt.) [2]
- Stores, Retail [2]
- Street photography [2]
- Swimming [2]
- Women veterans [2]
- Architectural photography [1]
- Boats and boating [1]
- Bridges [1]
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- Business [1]
- Camps [1]
- Canoes and canoeing [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Chairs [1]
- Christ the King School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- College students [1]
- Firearms [1]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Flowers [1]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [1]
- Free Press Association (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Horses [1]
- Milton Elementary School (Milton, Vt.) [1]
- Puppets [1]
- Radio broadcasters [1]
- Rifles [1]
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Topic: ("Children")
Genre: ("photographs")
Title: Burlington Daily News
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 Eight child paper-carriers stand beside a car with writing on its side "St. Albans, Vt., Franklin County" in front of the Wells Richardson Building, College Street, Burlington, Vermont. Location of the newspaper the Burlington Daily News that later became the Burlington Free Press. This photo also appears in Images of America Burlington, p. 64.
Title: Camp Marycrest (Grand Isle, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young campers sit on the ground in front of an open sided building and do craft projects. Some use yarn to make octopus like dolls. They are at Camp Marycrest, in Grand Isle, Vermont, a camp for girls that operated from 1957 to 1993 by the Sisters of Mercy. Undated but may be taken in 1950s or 1960s.
Title: Camp Marycrest - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Children participate in a painting and paper mache craft session while sitting at wooden tables made into a makeshift work bench. Are those puppet or marionette heads they are making? Camp Marycrest in Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #5.
Title: Camps - Summer
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Winter 1946/1947 photo of men, women, children and youth standing and sitting outside on the grass. Photo #2.
Title: Camps - Summer
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer, Fall 1945 photo of young campers holding a variety of foods. A tent is pitched behind them. Photo #8.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled for a group picture and dressed for First Communion. They are gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #27.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled for a group picture and dressed for First Communion. They are gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #28.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled for a group picture in a classroom, dressed for First Communion. Several hold special objects. Baskets of flowers are placed between the two groups.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 upper grade class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled for a group picture on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #1.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group photo of young students of the Cathedral Grammar School dressed for First Communion. They are assembled on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #26
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Spring 1950 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students dressed for First Communion standing on the steps outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #2.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 photo of the front of the sanctuary of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vt with Cathedral Grammar School students ready for First Communion.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students dressed for First Communion standing on the steps outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #2.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students dressed for First Communion standing on the steps outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #3.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students having refreshments as part of their First Communion. Parents stand along the edges of the classroom.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of a dormitory like room. A nun fixes the hair on one child, other children busy themselves with duties. Beds line the walls with a toy carefully placed on each. Could this be St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont? Photo #4.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 portrait photo of students of a religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #1?
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 portrait photo of a Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception religion class. Photo #6?
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 portrait photo of students of a religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #5.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 portrait photo of a large group of students of a Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception religion class. Photo #4.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 portrait photo of a large group of students of a Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception religion class outside on the steps of the church. Photo #3.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 portrait photo of students of a Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception religion class outside on the steps of the church. Photo #2.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-57
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956/1957 portrait photo of students of a Cathechism religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #9.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-57
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956/1957 portrait photo of students of a Cathechism religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #7.
Title: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-57
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956/1957 portrait photo of students of a Cathechism religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #1.
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