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.) [18]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [2]
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- image [21]
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- black-and-white photographs [20]
- photographs [20]
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- Girls [21]
- High school buildings [21]
- Portrait photography [16]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [15]
- High school students [13]
- High school athletes [2]
- Classrooms [1]
- High school teachers [1]
- Interior architecture [1]
- Nuns [1]
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Topic: ("High school buildings")
Topic: ("Girls")
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of female students outside gathered for a group picture on the steps of Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont. A priest stands in front row at the center. Photo #2.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of female students outside gathered for a group picture on the steps of Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont. A priest stands in front row at the center. Photo #3.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of female students outside gathered for a group picture on the steps of Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont.Photo #1.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 group photo of female Cathedral High School students assembled in the school gymnasium. Photo #13.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 group portrait Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled in a room with large religious paintings on the wall behind them. Photo #20.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 group portrait Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside on school steps. Photo #3.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 group portrait Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside on school steps. Photo #6.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 group portrait Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside with the school seen behind them. Photo #20.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 group portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students gathered beside the main school entrance. Photo #18.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 group portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students gathered outside beside the school main entrance. Photo #24.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside beside the school's main entrance. Photo #17.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside beside the school. Photo #22.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 group portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students gathered outside with the school seen behind them. Photo #19.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside beside the school entrance. Photo #23.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 group portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students gathered outside with the school seen behind them.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 group portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students gathered outside with the school seen behind them. Photo #11.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Miscellaneous
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955 photo of two teenagers (students?) and a nun gathered around a library table in the school library.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Miscellaneous
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1954 photo of Mount St. Mary's students purchasing goods at what may be a student run store at the school.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Sodality
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 photo of the Mt. St. Mary's Academy Sodality in a classroom, here demonstrating some of their activities-- spiritual reading and making signs to promote the benefits of praying the rosary. Sodalities gave lay Catholics the opportunity to increase their personal devotion and serve others; hence, the sign: "Rosaries release souls from Purgatory. Say yours every day." Another one says: "Convert Russia through the Rosary." Photo #15.
Title: Vergennes High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of 3 members of the Vergennes High School girls basketball team in the gymnasium. (This is in the older high school, which was built in 1871 and demolished in 1964. The present union high school opened in 1959.)
Title: Vergennes High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 -1945 Vergennes High School girls basketball team, with coaches and school principal(?) in the gymnasium. A trophy is on the floor. Photo #2.
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