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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- Auditoriums [1]
- Buildings [1]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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Topic: ("Cows")
Genre: ("black-and-white photographs")
Title: Animals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of cows and milking machines in a barn. Circa 1959.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of upland meadow where a farmer is standing with his grazing herd of dairy cows of different breeds.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a cow barn with three men, cows, milking machines and buckets. See also for what may be the same barn mcalB08F12i08 edit
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of the interior of a dairy cow barn with several well dressed men walking among the cow stalls.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of several men (dairy inspectors??) in a cow barn.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a dairy barn with cows in their stalls and milking equipment. See also for what may be the same barn mcalB08F12i01.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a dairy barn with cows in their stalls, milking equipment and two men.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dairy cows in a field.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a farm with dairy cows in a pasture, farm buildings seen in the background and a man on a horse to the far right.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dairy cows in a pasture.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 farm scene with dairy cows in a pasture.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of dairy cows grazing in a pasture with a barn and other farm buildings in background. Photo #5.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cows in a pasture.
Title: Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Eastern States Farmers' Exchange of Springfield, Mass. exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont. Undated. Embossed with McAllister's name lover right corner.
Title: Portraits, groups, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Six men stop their work and stand next to two butchered cows (steers?) in a meat processing plant. Undated.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cows in the pasture of the Bicknell dairy farm stand next to the steamship Ticonderoga. The W. B. Hill Co., building movers of Tilton, New Hampshire, navigate the paddle-boat overland to the Shelburne Museum. Photo undated but probably March 1955.
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