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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- Christmas greens [117]
- Family [71]
- Children [70]
- Portrait photography [64]
- House furnishings [56]
- Santa Claus [13]
- Men [12]
- Dwellings [5]
- Girls [5]
- Buildings [4]
- Burlington Business College [4]
- College students [4]
- Infants [4]
- Christmas pageants [3]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [3]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [3]
- Salvation Army [3]
- Young women [3]
- Church buildings [2]
- Gymnasiums [2]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [2]
- Architectural photography [1]
- Automobiles [1]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Business [1]
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- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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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: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1942 Burlington Business College Christmas party with Santa Claus attending. One woman holds a large doll.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1942 Burlington Business College women are gathered around a piano at Christmas time. They hold what may be sheets of music for a carol sing. Christmas trees seen to the right. Photo #3.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1942 Burlington Business College women look to be putting on a skit in front of an audience. One woman holds a Shirley Temple like doll, another ice skates, a third holds a doll as if it were a baby. Christmas trees seen to the right.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1942. Women college students of the Burlington Business College celebrate Christmas and receive gifts from Santa Claus. Photo #2.
Title: First Congregational Church - Interior
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the First Congregational Church sanctuary decorated with five real evergreen trees for Christmas. Wreaths hang overhead in the background.
Title: Fraternal Order of Eagles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 photo of Santa Claus and a few men and women members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles standing next to a decorated Christmas tree.
Title: Fraternal Order of Eagles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949-1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 / 1950 photo of Santa Claus (wearing a costume mask) and a few male members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles standing next to a decorated Christmas tree. Photo #6.
Title: Fraternal Order of Eagles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949-1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 / 1950 photo of Santa Claus, men, women and children (with Christmas stockings) participants in Christmas celebration of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. One child is also dressed as Santa. A decorated Christmas tree seen in back.
Title: Houses with Gardens - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Mid 1940s winter photo of 216 So. Prospect Street showing a Christmas display in the snow of Santa, sleigh and two reindeer. House built in 1871. It is currently the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house.
Title: Interiors (Unidentified)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of a room decorated for Christmas. A letter banner over head reads "A Merry Christmas." A large crest with shield, boar's head and Latin inscription is on the wall. A cardboard fireplace is adorned with evergreen bows and sports trophies. Yule logs are in the fireplace's opening. A decorated Christmas tree is to the right.
Title: Interiors (Unidentified)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1930s dining hall at Mount St. Mary's is heavily decorated with crepe paper streamers attached to the ceiling. Tables are elaborately set with food with each having a cloth place mat draping the table covering and a place card. Columns are adorned with streamers and evergreen bows. An all male wait staff stands ready to serve this Christmas meal. See also mcalA15F08i13.
Title: Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Santa sits at the wheel of an automobile loaded with Christmas presents that is part of an exhibit at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont. A sign invites all children to visit with Santa Claus. Undated but may be 1930s? Photo #2.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Buildings and Surroundings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 or 1936. Mount St. Mary's Academy dining hall heavily decorated with crepe paper streamers attached to the ceiling. Tables are elaborately set with food with each having a cloth place mat draping the table covering and a place card for a Christmas meal. Columns are adorned with streamers and evergreen bows. See also mcalA15F08i13 and mcalA11F19i07
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
1944 photo of a little boy seated in the living room with Christmas tree, wrapped presents and stuffed toys
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
1944 Christmas photo of three young children seated on the floor of a living room. They are in front of their Christmas tree along with wrapped presents. One child holds a doll while another holds a toy.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of a young boy in his home seated on a rocking horse with other toys and the family Christmas tree. A framed photo of a soldier is placed on the floor among the toys that include a soldier doll.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of two young boys (brothers?) seated in a living room on a hassock in front of a Christmas tree.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of toddler seated in front of a Christmas tree with presents in a living room that include a googly eye mask face doll and a wooden wheeled riding horse. Note: Western Electric metal nondial space-saver wall telephone (1930-1957) with answer only capability seen to the right.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 Christmas portrait of toddler standing in front of a Christmas tree and presents in a living room. Note: Western Electric metal nondial space-saver wall telephone (1930-1957) with answer only capability seen to the right.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of a young girl in a living room seated on the arm of an upholstered chair. She holds a doll. Beside her is a doll's crib. Behind her is a Christmas tree.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of a young boy seated on the floor with his Christmas toys and Christmas tree.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 Christmas portrait of a little boy holding a football with Christmas tree, toy and presents nearby. The name Jackie Simonson written on the child's blackboard behind him.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947; 1946-1947
1946 or 1947 photo of a Christmas tree in a living room next to a fireplace. An infant rests on a sofa to the left. The mirror over the mantle reflects a mother standing nearby.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 photo of two young children (boys?) seated on the floor in front of a Christmas tree surrounded by Christmas toys. Seen are a small train on tracks, a Bambi rocker, a wagon, plush toys, books and noise makers.
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