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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Place(s)
- Burlington (Vt.) [22]
- Bristol (Vt.) [4]
- Milton (Vt.) [2]
- Winooski (Vt.) [2]
Format(s)
- image [36]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [36]
- photographs [36]
Topic(s)
- Middle school students [36]
- Portrait photography [36]
- South Burlington Central School (Vt.) [9]
- Girls [8]
- Boys [6]
- Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School (Bristol, Vt.) [4]
- School children [3]
- St. Joseph School (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Basketball [2]
- Confirmation Catholic Church [2]
- Milton Middle/High School (Milton, Vt.) [2]
- Nuns [2]
- Priests [2]
- St. Stephen's Church (Winooski, Vt.) [2]
- Blackface entertainers [1]
- High school teachers [1]
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![Thumbnail: Bristol School - Class Pictures [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB02F12i01-thumb.jpg)
Title: Bristol School - Class Pictures [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #1.
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Title: Bristol School - Class Pictures [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #6
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Title: Bristol School -Class Pictures [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #4.
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Title: Bristol School -Class Pictures [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #13.
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of graduates along with church clergy assembled outside for a formal group portrait. The girls are in formal dress each with a corsage on their left shoulder. The boys are all in jackets and ties. Photo #3. Undated. 1950s?
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young men and women along with church clergy assembled outside for a formal group portrait. The girls are in formal dress each with a corsage on their left shoulder. The boys are all in jackets and ties. Photo may have been taken in commemoration of the Catholic sacrament of confirmation. Photo #1. Undated. 1950s? Priest in the back row, right is very likely the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Patrick C. Brennan.
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young men and women along with a church clergy assembled outside for a formal group portrait. The boys are all in jackets and ties. Girls are gathered in the front rows with the boys in the back. Photo #3. Undated. Same group as mcalA09F05i20.
Title: Christ the King School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young men and women along with a church clergy assembled outside for a formal group portrait. The boys are all in jackets and ties. Girls are gathered in the front rows with the boys in the back. Photo #1. Undated. Same as mcalA09F05i19.
Title: Graduations - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
South Burlington Central School Graduation at Burlington Memorial Auditorium with class slogan seen in the back "Forward for Success". Photo #3.
Title: Lyman C. Hunt Junior High
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated group portrait of students at the Lyman C. Hunt Junior High School, Burlington, Vt. Photo #2.
Title: Lyman C. Hunt Junior High
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated group portrait of students at the Lyman C. Hunt Junior High School, Burlington, Vt. Photo #3.
Title: Lyman C. Hunt Junior High
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 group portrait of students at the Lyman C. Hunt Junior High School, Burlington, Vt. Photo #1.
Title: Lyman C. Hunt Junior High
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 group portrait of students at the Lyman C. Hunt Junior High School, Burlington, Vt. Photo #2.
Title: Lyman C. Hunt Junior High
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 group portrait of students at the Lyman C. Hunt Junior High School, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Milton High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 Milton High School class picture. Photo #9.
Title: Milton High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 Milton school student class picture. Photo #8.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1960 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy younger students gathered outside on the steps of the school. Photo #4.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1960 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy younger students gathered outside on the steps of the school. Photo #5.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1960 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy younger students gathered outside on the steps of the school. Photo #6.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1961 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy students standing outside on the school steps. Photo #21.
Title: Saint Joseph's Church - Organizations
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo taken very likely at St. Joseph School (then, Ecole Nazareth). The group of students, all dressed very formally, may be a graduating class or a Confirmation class. Rev. William F. Laliberte, at St. Joseph's 1943-1951, sits in the middle of the front row.
Title: Saint Joseph's School - Class Dinners
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949; 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 photo of a dinner at St. Joseph School in honor of the graduating Class of 1949. Seated at the end of the tables in the foreground are 2 Daughters of the Holy Ghost, members of a Catholic order that, since 1943, provided instruction and administration at St. Joseph School.
Title: Saint Joseph's School - Class Dinners
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950; 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Another view of the group in mcalB17F15i02. 1950 photo showing mostly students of the 8th grade graduating class at St. Joseph school. Seated at the end of the tables in the foreground are 2 Daughters of the Holy Ghost, members of a Catholic order that, since 1943, provided instruction and administration at St. Joseph School.
Title: Saint Stephen's
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949; 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1948 photo of the St. Stephen's parish basketball team and their coaches. Location of the gym unknown.
Title: Saint Stephen's
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949; 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1948 photo of the St. Stephen's parish basketball team and their coaches. Location of the gym unknown.
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