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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- Trucks [127]
- Street photography [33]
- Construction projects [30]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [29]
- Business [23]
- Employees [8]
- Snowblowers [8]
- Men [6]
- Service stations [6]
- Burlington International Airport [5]
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- Automobiles [4]
- Landscape photography [4]
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- Girls [3]
- Stores, Retail [3]
- Tractors [3]
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- Advertising [2]
- Architectural photography [2]
- Banners [2]
- Boys [2]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- High school students [2]
- Housing [2]
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- Railroad tracks [2]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [2]
- Traffic accidents [2]
- University of Vermont [2]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [2]
- Waste disposal sites [2]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [2]
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- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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Topic: ("Trucks")
Title: Automobile Wrecks & Wreckers
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A Hope & Son wrecker carrying a demolished truck of the Standard Coal and Fuel Co. Photograph taken in outside of the Hope & Son garage.
Title: Automobile Wrecks & Wreckers
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a demolished truck at the scene of an accident.
Title: Automobile Wrecks & Wreckers
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a Hope & Son wrecker transporting a demolished truck. An Esso gas station sign seen in upper left.
Title: Automobile Wrecks & Wreckers
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a damaged U.S. Mail truck at the scene of an accident.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (D-G)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
C.H. Goss Co., car dealership of Dodge Plymouth at 237 North Ave. A dump truck and a George C. Stanley & Sons asphalt tank truck are seen parked out front. Dates 1945-1958.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (D-G)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
C.H. Goss Co. 237 North Ave. with a George C. Stanley & Sons asphalt tank truck parked in front. Dates 1945-1958. Fall-Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Employees and delivery truck in front of used car dealership and service station owned by Frank E. Patnaude; Lincoln, Mercury, used cars. 1 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Employees and delivery truck in front of used car dealership and service station owned by Frank E. Patnaude; Lincoln, Mercury, used cars. Garages at 1 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (H-P)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Photo of a delivery truck and Frank Patnaude at Patnaude's owned by F.E. Patnaude located at 1 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vt. Used cars, service and dealership for Lincoln Muercury cars. Fall.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Yandow Motor and Tire Co. 11-15 S. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Winter.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1941-10-11; 1941-10-11
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
City of Burlington, Vermont - Municipal Airport Photo dated Oct 11, 1944. This view shows the completed foundation walls with grading inside and outside of the foundation walls nearly completed ready to receive the metal hangar shown in position where it has been moved from its original location. This view was taken from the roof of the transformer building just westerly of the new location of the metal hangar. Note the truck dumping filling in the foreground, also the bulldozer leveling filling and 2 ton tandem roller compacting filling inside of walls.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-03; 1944-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vt. Photo dated March 4,1944 This view shows the Snow King Rotary Plow operated by the Walter Snow Fighter truck blowing snow from Burlington Municipal runways. Note the force and distance at which the snow is blown, also note the depth of the snow as shown by the picket fence and the boundary light below the surface of the snow in the foreground.
Title: Burlington Asphalt Plant
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937; undated; 1937; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Burlington Asphalt Plant automobile, trucks, and drivers
Title: Burlington Asphalt Plant
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937; undated; 1937; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Burlington Asphalt Plant employees, trucks, horse
Title: Burlington City Hall Park
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 6-4-1938; undated; 6-4-1938; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 4, 1938. Groundskeepers with truck working in City Hall Park near fountain with City Hall in the background
Title: Burlington Dump
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942; 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 3, 1944. This view shows the dumping area with truck dumping waste at right and accumulation of metal and other salvage at the left. Note the difference in elevation of the dumping area which is approximately 40 feet above the Intervale area and approximately 80 feet below the level of the Street on North Bend indicated by the houses at the top of the bank. This makes an ideal location for a Refuse Disposal Grounds.
Title: Burlington Dump
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942; 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 8, 1944. This view shows a section of the Salvage Depot as a load of baled salvage paper was being loaded and hauled to the car by the Burlington Paper Stock Co. to whom all salvage paper is being sold. This load contained 45 bales having a total weight of approximately 2 1/2 tons.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1930s or 1940s photograph no.2 of a sewer maintenance truck of the Burlington Street Dept.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1930s or 1940s photograph no.3 of a sewer maintenance truck of the Burlington Street Dept.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated May 18, 1931 of a tank truck of the Burlington Street Dept. used for street cleaning
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 18, 1931 photograph of a tank truck of the Burlington Street Dept. used for street cleaning
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dec. 13, 1937. Snow plow in operation, possibly at the Burlington Airport.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated Jan. 7, 1941. Original caption reads: "This view shows all of the Street Department sanding units consisting of four sidewalk sanding sleds, hauled by the sidewalk tractors, and three Superior Sand spreaders mounted on our dump-body trucks. These units are kept very busy during and after every sleet storm. With this equipment the Street Department handled more than 2500 cubic yards of sand mixed with approximately 100 tons of rock salt, during the past winter."
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated Oct. 6, 1944. Original caption reads: "Burlington Street Department - Stanley Leaf Eductor This view shows the Stanley Leaf Eductor as it appeared when first designed and ready for demonstration. Later a few changes were made including substituting a Ford motor for the LeRoi motor (shown in this picture) to generate more suction power. Note the Universal joint in the suction pipe with telescoping section operated by a cantilever handle. The upper section of the body was constructed with strips of sheet metal lined with chicken wire and coarse burlap which would allow the air to escape as the dirt and leaves were blown into the body. The truck used for this Leaf Eductor is the old 1923 Model 5 ton White which was originally purchased with the Elgin Catch Basin Eductor, the body of which minus the baffle plates was used for the lower portion of the new body which holds approximately 12 cubic yards and is dumped by a power lift. The original motor in this truck has been replaced by a rebuilt motor. The blower used as suction power for this equipment was a Concord Blower which has been used for nearly 20 years as a sawdust blower in a sawmill and for another 20 years as a dust collector at our Municipal Asphalt Plant. The ends of the blades of the rotor were cut off and replaced with heavy 8 ply belting material to eliminate breakage. This equipment was used in cleaning the leaves from the gutters until freezing weather prevented work of this nature.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings - Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1931-1944; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photograph of a snow plow in operation, possibly at the Burlington Airport.
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