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.) [35]
- Colchester (Vt.) [2]
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- image [52]
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- black-and-white photographs [50]
- photographs [50]
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- College graduates [52]
- Portrait photography [52]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [33]
- Young women [14]
- Nurses [11]
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Title: Fanny Allen Hospital: School of Nurses Training - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
This photo appears in the Burlington Free Press of June 7, 1944 (one day after D-Day). In the front row (l.-r.) are: Marjorie Malbourne, Gertrude Valyou, Sr. Bisson (Superintendent of Nurses, Fanny Allen Hospital), Lorraine Barber, Lorraine Dion. Back row (l.-r.): Barbara McNeil, Bernadette Daly, Doritt Rylant, Alfreda Moreau, Ruby Story, Kathleen McNally, and Margaret Rice. Photo #2?
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital: School of Nurses Training - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
This photo appears in the Burlington Free Press of June 7, 1944 (one day after D-Day). In the front row (l.-r.) are: Marjorie Malbourne, Gertrude Valyou, Sr. Bisson (Superintendent of Nurses, Fanny Allen Hospital), Lorraine Barber, Lorraine Dion. Back row (l.-r.): Barbara McNeil, Bernadette Daly, Doritt Rylant, Alfreda Moreau, Ruby Story, Kathleen McNally, and Margaret Rice. Photo #1.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of graduates in cap and gown standing outside in front of a brick building. Photo #2.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Library hours posted in window. Wooden shutter has silhouette of a lighted torch cut out in upper panel. Photo #1.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Library hours posted in window. Wooden shutter has silhouette of a lighted torch cut out in upper panel. Photo #3.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Library hours posted in the window. Wooden shutter has silhouette of a lighted torch cut out in upper panel.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Photo #1.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Photo #3.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Library hours posted in the window. Wooden shutter has silhouette of a lighted torch cut out in upper panel. An older woman stands to the far left. A young man with a graduation baton stands upper right. Photo #2.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Library hours posted in the window. Wooden shutter has silhouette of a lighted torch cut out in upper panel. An older woman stands to the far left. A young man with a graduation baton stands upper right. Photo #1.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 formal portrait photo of graduates in cap and gown outside in front of a brick library building. Library hours posted in the window. Wooden shutter has silhouette of a lighted torch cut out in upper panel. An older woman stands to the far left. A young man with a graduation baton stands upper right. Photo #3.
Title: Portraits - Individuals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Two portrait photos of a young man in graduation cap and gown standing on a lawn next to a house. Dated 1945.
Title: Portraits - Individuals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947; 1946-1947
Two portrait photos of a young man in graduation cap and gown standing on a lawn next to a house. Dated 1946 / 1947.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 group of Trinity College graduates in academic gowns. Mann Hall is in the background.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 group of Trinity College graduates in academic gowns. Mann Hall is in the background.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 group of Trinity College graduates in academic gowns. Office is very likely in the Administration Building (Mann Hall).
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 graduating class of Nursing students in front of the Bishop De Goesbriand Hospital, near Trinity College. Photo #1.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 graduating class of Nursing students in front of the Bishop De Goesbriand Hospital, near Trinity College. Photo #2?
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 graduating class of Nursing students in front of the Bishop De Goesbriand Hospital, near Trinity College. Photo #3.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Trinity College graduates in academic gowns in front of the Administration Building (Mann Hall). Photo #6.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Trinity College graduates in academic gowns in front of the Administration Building (Mann Hall). Photo #3.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Trinity College graduates in academic gowns in front of the Administration Building (Mann Hall). Photo #7.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 graduating class of Nursing students in front of the Bishop De Goesbriand Hospital, near Trinity College. Photo #2.
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