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.) [885]
- Winooski (Vt.) [35]
- Champlain, Lake [16]
- Colchester (Vt.) [15]
- Potash Brook (Vt.) [15]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [11]
- Battery Park (Vt.) [9]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [4]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [2]
Format(s)
- image [1061]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [828]
- photographs [828]
Topic(s)
- Construction projects [1061]
- Street photography [494]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [406]
- Construction workers [329]
- Buildings [229]
- Bridges [67]
- Ferries [50]
- United StatesWork Projects Administration. [46]
- Champlain Transportation Company [41]
- Street-railroad tracks [38]
- United StatesPublic Works Administration. [35]
- Dwellings [31]
- Trucks [30]
- Business [26]
- Automobiles [25]
- Oil storage tanks [22]
- Stores, Retail [18]
- Sewage disposal [16]
- Urban parks [15]
- VermontEmergency Relief Administration [15]
- Department stores [13]
- S.S. Kresge Company [13]
- Tractors [13]
- Heineberg Bridge (Chittenden County, Vt.) [12]
- Street signs [12]
- Billboards [10]
- Machinery [10]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [10]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [9]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [9]
- Church buildings [9]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [9]
- Railroad trains [9]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [8]
- Bank buildings [6]
- Boats and boating [6]
- Men [6]
- Portrait photography [6]
- Railroad tracks [6]
- Shelburne Museum [6]
- Auditoriums [5]
- Burlington Federal Savings [5]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [5]
- Interior architecture [5]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [5]
- Theaters [5]
- University of Vermont [5]
- Waste disposal in the ground [5]
- Waste disposal sites [5]
- Cemeteries [4]
- Drugstores [4]
- Gymnasiums [4]
- High school buildings [4]
- Service stations [4]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Tractors Equipment and supplies [4]
- Airplanes [3]
- Flood damage [3]
- Burlington Rapid Transit Company [2]
- Buses [2]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Chapels [2]
- Dams [2]
- Employees [2]
- Horses [2]
- Housing [2]
- Manholes [2]
- Post office buildings [2]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Barns [1]
- Blasting [1]
- Boys [1]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Fletcher Free Library [1]
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Hotels [1]
- Museums [1]
- Ships [1]
- Tank trucks [1]
- Van Ness House [1]
- Young men [1]
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Topic: ("Construction projects")
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (D-G)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer 1952. View of the corner of Pearl Street at North Winooski Ave. after the removal of the Church of the Nazarene. Construction of new Gulf gas service station.
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
July 15, 1952. Construction of a new Gulf gas service station at the corner of Pearl St. and No. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. C.A. Congdon Construction. Young's drug store to the left. See also mcalB01F17i04
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
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 construction site of the G. S. Blodgett oven company located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Lake Champlain to the left. Shadow of photographer's tripod in center lower part of photo.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 5, 1945. For dated photo see also Burlington Streets: Lakeside Ave mcalA05F11i02 City of Burlington, Vermont, Street Department Lakeside Ave. Pavement Base Construction This view was taken from a point near the intersection of Central Ave. looking easterly toward the underpass. The new factory building just completed for the Blodgett Co. is shown with parking area base recently constructed between the street line and the building. Note the asphalt emulsion stabilized base which was mixed the previous day before taking this picture. Cold weather and frost conditions had frozen the base mixture on the left half of the street but the job was continued on the north half in spite of the low temperatures as the street had to be put in condition to receive traffic for the winter, this street being on a regular bus line. The job was continued by placing a 2 inch layer of crushed stone on this stabilized base and penetrating the same with asphalt emulsion and covering with concrete sand as a "blotter" for the winter and then opened to traffic. This project will be continued to completion in the spring by constructing an integral concrete curb and gutter on the south side of a 2 inch hot plant mix wearing surface over the entire pavement area. Note the asphalt distributor applying emulsion and the tractor and harrow mixing the base.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 photo of three boats under construction most likely at the Shelburne Shipyard. Members of the work crew stand on board.
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Workers constructing bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Workers constructing bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-11-20; 1928-11-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Completed bridge improvement construction, November 20, 1928, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Completed bridge improvement construction, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Bridges, Potash Brook (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928; 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-11-01; 1935-11-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
This 1935 photo shows a utility vehicle with driver applying seal coat on taxi strip at Burlington Municipal Airport using 1/4 gallon per square yard of Colas Quick Breaking Emulsion and sanding lightly. Hangar in the background. Date handwritten in bottom right corner "Nov. 1, 1935."
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934; 1935; 1934; 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 20, 1935. Photo #6. Caption on photo reads "#6 Burlington Vt. 6-20-35 VERA (Vermont Emergency Relief Administration) Proj # 402-B15-1 Burlington Municipal Airport - Distribution of Bitumuls and blade grater following and leveling prior to light compacting of surface." Show industrial road construction vehicles of 1935 with operators.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934; 1935; 1934; 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 20, 1935. Photo #7. Caption on photo reads "#7 Burlington Vt 6-20-35 VERA (Vermont Emergency Relief Administration) Proj. #402-B151 Burlington Municipal Airport - Tractor and spring tooth horrows mixing dry aggregate prior to application of Bitumuls. Shows workmen and tractor with operator.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934; 1935; 1934; 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 21, 1935. Photo #9. Caption on photo reads "#9 Burlington Vt VERA (Vermont Emergency Relief Administration) Proj-#402- 1 6, 6-21-35 Burlington Municipal Airport - 6" corrugated metal pipe perforated and asphalt coated before filling trench with crushed stone." Shows a very deep trench straight down the middle of the photo with the back of one worker center bottom and a man standing in the trench several feet away. Banks of earth piled to one side.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934; 1935; 1934; 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 27, 1934. This view is looking west from the north-south runway and shows the completed approach to hangar and administration building done under V.E.R.A. Caption on this 1934 photo reads "#17A 11-27-34 Municipal Air Port Project - Approach or 'Taxi Strip' construction completed. Administration Building and Hangar in background."
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