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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- Rifles [20]
- High school students [11]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Portrait photography [6]
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- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Targets (Shooting) [1]
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- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [1]
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Topic: ("Rifles")
Title: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait of an unidentified young women's rifle team. Women in the front row wear bloomers. Probably 1920s.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955 BHS Rifle Club with Mr. Ed Keenan, coach. See BHS 1955 yearbook, Oread, p. 79.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955 BHS Rifle Club with Mr. Ed Keenan, coach. See BHS 1955 yearbook, p. 79.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the Burlington High School Rifle Club with coach. Photo #7.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954-1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Burlington High School Rifle Club with Coach Edward A. Keenan. Photo #1. Photo appears in the 1956 BHS yearbook, Oread, p. 65.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954-1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Burlington High School Rifle Club with Coach Edward A. Keenan. Photo #2. A version of this photo appears in the 1956 BHS yearbook, Oread, p. 65.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954-1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Burlington High School Rifle Club with Coach Edward A. Keenan. Photo #3. A version of this photo appears in the 1956 BHS yearbook, Oread, p. 65.
Title: Burlington High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the Burlington High School Rifle Club with Coach Edward A. Keenan. Photo #8.
Title: Burlington High School Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of student David Dilloway, BHS class of 1954, and Mr. Edward Keenan, the Burlington High School Rifle Club's coach) each holding a rifle. Behind David is a poster giving tips for safe shooting. Taken for BHS yearbook, Oread 1954, p. 26.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944. Targeting shoots with rifles at Camp Abnaki. Photo #19.
Title: Cathedral High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-04; 1945-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A photograph of the Cathedral High School Rifle Club that is dated April 1945.
Title: Cathedral High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A photograph of the Cathedral High School Rifle Club that is dated 1957.
Title: Cathedral High School - Rifle Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A photograph of the Cathedral High School Rifle Club that is dated 1956.
Title: Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Range (Underhill)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait of military men with rifles in front of tents. Photo signed by McAllister.
Title: Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Range (Underhill)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait of military men with rifles in front of buildings and tents. Undated but may be circa 1917.
Title: Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Range (Underhill)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1917-06
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 1917 photo of Troop D Nineteenth Cavalry Portrait of military men with rifles in front of tents.
Title: Houses - Unidentified - Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
An interior view of a living room area perhaps in a camp, cottage or hunting lodge. Overstuffed chairs and other comfortable furniture furnish the room. Many animal heads (some foxes?) are hung on the walls. Rifles are mounted overhead.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Members of the Rice Memorial High School Rifle Club. Dated 1959. Photo #20.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of a ceremony at Battery Park, very likely on Veterans Day. An honor guard stands ready to fire one or more volleys--very likely the customary three--in honor of deceased veterans. (Three volleys from seven rifles does not constitute a 21-gun salute, however.) A number of citizens are present. The veterans memorial in Battery Park is dedicated to the memory of Howard W. Plant, first Burlington casualty of World War I.
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Standing stuffed bear with a rifle leaning against him in the Webb estate trophy room in Shelburne, Vermont.
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