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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- Shelburne (Vt.) [14]
- Burlington (Vt.) [12]
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- image [29]
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- black-and-white photographs [24]
- photographs [24]
Topic(s)
- Museums [29]
- Shelburne Museum [13]
- Buildings [10]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [9]
- University of Vermont [7]
- Furniture [3]
- Steamboats [3]
- Street photography [3]
- Ticonderoga (Steamship) [3]
- Animals [2]
- Hospitals [2]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Men [2]
- Portrait photography [2]
- Construction projects [1]
- Exhibitions [1]
- Housing [1]
- Landscape photography [1]
- Lighthouses [1]
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Title: Burlington Streets: Colchester Ave
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1933-07-12; 1933-07-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 12, 1933 dated photo of Colchester Ave. looking west in the direction of Mansfield Ave. Robert Hull Fleming Museum is on left (constructed in 1931). More about this photo can be found on UVM's Historic Burlington Project web site.
Title: Burlington Streets: Colchester Ave
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1933-07-12; 1933-07-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 12, 1933 dated photo of Colchester Ave. looking west in the direction of Mansfield Ave. Robert Hull Fleming Museum is on left (constructed in 1931). More about this photo can be found on UVM's Historic Burlington Project web site.
Title: Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington - Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950-52
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
October 16, 1951. Construction of Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim, Mead & White. Builders Vermilya Brown Co., Inc. UVM buildings in the background including the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, box dormitory, Old Mill, Billings, Ira Allen Chapel steeple.
Title: Museum/Exhibit/Antiques
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952; 1952
1952 photo of four women with a display of antiques. Seen is a fireplace, spinning wheel, a shelf clock, weaving loom and woven cloth, weighing scales. Photo #2.
Title: Museum/Exhibit/Antiques
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952; 1952
1952 photo of four women standing at a table viewing a sculpture in a room setting full of period pieces and antiques. One woman holds a card reading "I voted did you?"
Title: Museum/Exhibit/Antiques
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952; 1952
1952 photo of three women standing at a table in a room setting full of period pieces and antiques. See also mcalB13F13i02 for same setting.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946; 1945-1946
Ca. 1945 photo of a large group of men, participants in either a conference or a reunion, assembled in front of the Robert H. Fleming Museum.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946; 1945-1946
Ca. 1945 photo of a large group of men, participants in either a conference or a reunion, assembled in front of the Robert H. Fleming Museum.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a drawing of the Shelburne Museum grounds. This is an earlier map, undated.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Former main entrance to the Shelburne Museum. Visitors could at one time enter through one side of the covered bridge. The other side housed wagons, carriages, carts. A horse drawn milk carriage was stationed next to the bridge. No border fence was present at this point in time. In the distance is seen the Colchester Lighthouse and the steamboat Ticonderoga.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Former main entrance to the Shelburne Museum. Visitors could at one time enter through one side of the covered bridge. The other side housed wagons, carriages, carts. A horse drawn milk carriage was stationed next to the bridge. No border fence was present at this point in time. In the distance is seen the Colchester Lighthouse and the steamboat Ticonderoga.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Visitors stop near the former main entrance to the Shelburne Museum. Visitors could at one time enter through one side of the covered bridge. The other side housed wagons, carriages, carts. A horse drawn milk carriage was stationed next to the bridge; a favorite spot for a snapshot. No border fence was present at this point in time. In the distance is seen the Colchester Lighthouse and the steamboat Ticonderoga.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Shelburne Museum. Schoolhouse near a pond on the museum grounds.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Colchester Lighthouse in the process of being permanently relocated to the Shelburne Museum grounds.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Spring photo of the Shelburne Museum Prentis House. Shown next to the house is a stone well and its long pole. Lilacs are in bloom.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Another view of the Shelburne Museum Prentis House with its saltbox style architecture and nearby well.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Another view of the Shelburne Museum Prentis House with its saltbox style architecture and nearby well.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Webb Trophy Room (now Shelburne Museum) showing a kitchen area with hearth, table and various wild creatures along with guns and rifles displayed hanging on the walls.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-04-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 12, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga is positioned in the berthing basin on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum. Behind the ship is seen the Colchester Lighthouse, one of the buildings of the museum. Photo 162.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-04-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 12, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga is positioned in the berthing basin on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum. The paddle-boat has traveled 9250 feet from Shelburne Bay overland to its final resting place. Photo 163.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-04-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 12, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga is positioned in the berthing basin on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum. Behind the ship is seen the Colchester Lighthouse, one of the buildings of the museum. Photo 164.
Title: UVM - Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Display case in the Fleming Museum with a variety of artifacts.
Title: UVM - Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Several women in period costume on the main stairs of the Fleming Museum. Occasion must have been a theatrical production of some kind. Dated 1951 / 1952.
Title: UVM - Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Three women in period costume, presumably for an event at the Fleming Museum. Dated 1951 / 1952.
Title: UVM - Housing (Temporary)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View looking northeast of temporary housing on the UVM campus. The Fleming Museum lies beyond the complex, with the Mary Fletcher Hospital off to the right. Dated 1947.
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