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.) [11]
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- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [11]
- Museums [9]
- University of Vermont [8]
- Interior architecture [3]
- Portrait photography [3]
- Dwellings [1]
- Exhibitions [1]
- Hospitals [1]
- Housing [1]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Street photography [1]
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Topic: ("Robert Hull 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: 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: School Groups - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948; 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1947 photo of a group of school children and their teachers, gathered for a portrait after a visit to the Fleming Museum at UVM.
Title: School Groups - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948; 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1947 photo of a group of school children and teachers, probably after a visit to the Fleming Museum at the University of Vt. Name of the school is unknown. See also mcalB17F23i01.
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.
Title: UVM Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 12, 1933. Colchester Ave., looking southwest, with view of Fleming Museum on the left.
Title: UVM Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior of the current Wilbur Room of the Fleming Museum, with a portrait of James Wilbur (1856-1929) above the fireplace. In effect the library of the museum, the room has bookcases and furniture suitable for leisurely reading, conversation, study, and meetings. The names of three prominent figures in Vermont history appear on the east, south, and west vaults of the ceiling. They are: Stephen R. Bradley (1754-1830), Ira Allen (1751-1814), and Thomas Chittenden (1730-1797; not visible in this photo).
Title: UVM Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior of the current Wilbur Room of the Fleming Museum, with a portrait of James Wilbur (1856-1929) above the fireplace. In effect the library of the museum, the room has bookcases and furniture suitable for leisurely reading, conversation, study, and meetings. The names of three prominent figures in Vermont history appear on the east, south, and west vaults of the ceiling. They are: Stephen R. Bradley (1754-1830), Ira Allen (1751-1814), and Thomas Chittenden (1730-1797; not visible in this photo). (See also mcalA18F10i02.)
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