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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Creator(s)
- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963 [579]
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Place(s)
- Burlington (Vt.) [109]
- Colchester (Vt.) [46]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [22]
- Middlebury (Vt.) [8]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [8]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [7]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [7]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [2]
- Kamp Kill Kare (Vt.) [2]
- Montpelier (Vt.) [2]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [2]
- Winooski (Vt.) [2]
- Battery Park (Vt.) [1]
- Champlain, Lake [1]
Format(s)
- image [580]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [357]
- photographs [357]
Topic(s)
- Men [580]
- Portrait photography [580]
- Women [298]
- Family [57]
- Restaurants [44]
- Veterans [22]
- Saint Michael's College (Colchester, Vt.) [21]
- Armed Forces Officers [19]
- Bowling [18]
- Priests [17]
- University of Vermont [17]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [17]
- College students [16]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [15]
- Business [14]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [14]
- Church buildings [13]
- House furnishings [12]
- Camp Holy Cross (Vt.) [9]
- Camps [8]
- Banners [7]
- Dwellings [7]
- Middlebury College [7]
- Nuns [7]
- Radio broadcasters [7]
- Athletics [6]
- Choirs (Music) [6]
- Young men [6]
- Young women [6]
- Actors [5]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [5]
- Circus performers [5]
- Horses [5]
- Musical groups [5]
- Radio stations [5]
- Salvation Army [5]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Advertising [4]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Cake [4]
- Cavalry [4]
- Chapels [4]
- Costume [4]
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows [4]
- Infants [4]
- Knights of Columbus [4]
- Landscape photography [4]
- Offices [4]
- Architectural photography [3]
- Boys [3]
- Camping [3]
- Christmas greens [3]
- Girls [3]
- Machinery [3]
- Marriage [3]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [3]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [3]
- Weddings [3]
- Airplanes [2]
- Animals [2]
- Brides [2]
- Burlington International Airport [2]
- Buses [2]
- Champlain Transportation Company [2]
- College graduates [2]
- Construction projects [2]
- Department stores [2]
- Gymnasiums [2]
- Modern Woodmen of America [2]
- Museums [2]
- Musicians [2]
- Railroad tracks [2]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [2]
- School children [2]
- Street-railroad tracks [2]
- Students [2]
- Theaters [2]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [2]
- Women veterans [2]
- Auditoriums [1]
- Bands (Music) [1]
- Beauty operators [1]
- Boxing [1]
- Bridegrooms [1]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Choruses [1]
- Class reunions [1]
- Classrooms [1]
- College teachers [1]
- Construction workers [1]
- Dolls [1]
- Flowers [1]
- High school buildings [1]
- High school students [1]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Painting [1]
- Plants [1]
- Rifle practice [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- Stores, Retail [1]
- Trailers [1]
- Trucks [1]
- Urban parks [1]
- VermontGovernor [1]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesLadies Auxiliary.Dept. of Vermont [1]
- Wills, William H.1882-1946 [1]
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Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Six men stand behind a table on which bowling pins, trophies and bowling balls are placed. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Five men stand behind a table on which bowling pins, trophies and bowling balls are placed. They wear dark shirts with their names embroidered on their left side (Floyd, Ray, Gus, Larry, Francis). The number 151 appears on the central bowling pin with the wording Bowl Away. In the 1940s city directory there was listed a Bowlaway Streamline Alleys at 65 Main St. in Burlington.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Five men stand behind a table on which bowling pins and bowling balls are placed. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction. Photo #2.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Six men stand and kneel for a group photo. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction. Photo #2.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Five men stand behind a table on which bowling pins, trophies and bowling balls have been placed. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Five men stand behind a table on which bowling pins, trophies and bowling balls have been placed. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a men's bowling league team. Seven men stand behind a table on which bowling pins, trophies and bowling balls are placed. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Late Fall - January 1940s Photo of a men's bowling league team. Five men stand behind a table on which bowling pins and bowling balls are placed. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Photo of a men's bowling league team. Five men stand behind a table on which bowling pins and bowling balls are placed. Their first names are embroidered on their shirts. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction. Photo #1?
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-0936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Three male boxers pose in a fighting stance for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Three male boxers pose in a fighting stance for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1940s Two male boxers pose for a photo in a fighting stance in what may be a gym.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter 1940s Two male boxers pose for a photo in a fighting stance in what may be a gym. The letters "B C" appear on the boxing shorts of the man on the right.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Five male boxers pose for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Five male boxers pose for a group portrait.
Title: Boy and Cub Scouts
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, Spring. Boy Scouts Four men are seated at a small table with the American flag and another flag on either side of them. A brick wall is behind them. One man is a priest.
Title: Boy and Cub Scouts
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, Spring. Boy Scouts. 1945-1956 Four men seated at a small table. The American flag and another flag are on each side of them. One man is a priest. A brick wall is behind them.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A formal portrait of a propeller driven airplane sitting in a open field with 20 men standing and kneeling beside it. The word SHELL is printed on the side of the plane. See also mcalA15F08i10.
Title: Burlington: "Cooties" Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 Back of photo: "Bugs Contacts Grange Hall" Male members of the Cooties Club, under the Veterans of Foreign Wars, gather for a group portrait.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Orchestra
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of a large group of men and young boys at Camp Abnaki. Photo #4.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Orchestra
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of a large group of mature and young men at Camp Abnaki. Photo #3.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #5.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #4.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #3.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 portrait photo of a Camp Abnaki staff member as he stands outside one of the main buildings and near a stone monument with a plaque. Totem pole seen behind. He is pictured in other camp photos of the 1950s. mcalB04F22i04, mcalA08F01i17
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