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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- black-and-white photographs [86]
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- Chapels [94]
- Portrait photography [32]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [29]
- University of Vermont [26]
- Young women [21]
- Interior architecture [9]
- Middlebury College [9]
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- Nuns [8]
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- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
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- Fanny Allen Hospital [6]
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- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
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- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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Topic: ("Chapels")
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #4.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #2.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of men outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #7?
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Title: Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 group portrait of a small group of men outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #8.
Title: Mount St. Mary's
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954; 1954
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1954 photo of Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's in Burlington.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955 photo of a kneeling woman in prayer near an altar. Is this Christ the King, Mount St. Mary's Academy or Trinity College? See also mcalA09F05i43 labeled as Christ the King. Same labeled photo mcalA18F05i23 as Trinity College.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955 photo of a young woman kneeling before an altar in a chapel. This may be Trinity, Christ the King or Mount St. Mary's.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 May Crowning ceremony in Mount St. Mary's Academy Sacred Heart Chapel. Young ladies dressed in long gowns and wearing veils line and process up the center aisle.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 May Crowning religious ceremony in the Mount St. Mary's Academy Sacred Heart Chapel. Young ladies line the aisle singing, wearing long gowns, veils, and holding bouquets of flowers. In the background a young woman crowns the statue of the Virgin Mary.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949-1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 / 1950 photo of a young woman placing a crown on the Virgin Mary statue in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's, Burlington, Vermont as part of the May Crowning religious ceremony. Photo #2.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 photo of crowned Virgin Mary statue in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's, Burlington, Vermont as part of the May Crowning religious ceremony. Lilies among the flowers seen.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 photo of four young women standing near the crowned statue of the Virgin Mary. They are in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's Academy and are participants in the religious ritual called May Crowning. Photo #3.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 May Crowning participants in front of the crowned statue of the Virgin Mary in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's, Burlington.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning ceremony Sacred Heart Chapel. Photo #6.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 May Crowning participants standing in front of the crowned statue of the Virgin Mary in the Sacred Heart Chapel of Mount St. Mary's in Burlington.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 worship service in the Sacred Heart Chapel of Mount St. Mary's. Photo #5.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of a young woman placing a crown on the statue of Blessed Virgin as part of the May Crowning ceremony. Photo #3.
Title: Mt. St. Mary's Convent
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955; 1955
Prayer before the altar in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's. Nuns wearing black veils very likely have made their solemn vows required by their order, the Sisters of Mercy. Those with white are novices, who remain so for at least a year of study and discernment. The women wearing black lace are very likely postulants, a stage earlier than the novitiate. Dated 1955.
Title: Mt. St. Mary's Convent
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955; 1955
Several Sisters of Mercy, novices (white veil), and postulants (black tulle veils) in prayer. Sacred Heart Chapel has large stained-glass windows. Dated 1955.
Title: Mt. St. Mary's Convent
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955; 1955
Ca. 23 women in the Sisters of Mercy community at Mount St. Mary's Sacred Heart Chapel : sisters (black veils), novices (white veils), and postulants (black tulle veils) in prayer in the choir of the chapel. Good example of Pre-Vatican II sanctuary, with the railing (where Communion is received); the altar built into the back wall of the sanctuary, requiring the priest to turn his back to the people; and the tabernacle placed centrally on the altar. Dated 1955.
Title: Mt. St. Mary's Convent
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955; 1955
Children seated in pews during catechism class in a chapel, with a Sister of Mercy (left) calling on children to stand and recite, very likely in preparation for First Communion. Girls have their heads covered, in adherence to Church teaching of the time. Is this also Sacred Heart Chapel? Photo dated 1955.
Title: Mt. St. Mary's Convent
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
"Cathedral Grammar School" [sic]. Sisters of Mercy recessing in the Sacred Heart Chapel after mass presumably, with novices in front, one of whom is carrying the cross. The convent was built between 1885 and 1890, in mostly Victorian and French Second Empire styles. The architect remains unknown. The number of residents peaked in 1964 (182) but fell to 43 in 1996 (Blow et al., Historic Guide, II: 65-66).
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