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.) [4594]
- Champlain, Lake [71]
- Battery Park (Vt.) [38]
- Colchester (Vt.) [28]
- Winooski (Vt.) [15]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [1]
Format(s)
- image [4594]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [4051]
- photographs [4051]
Topic(s)
- Portrait photography [1468]
- Construction projects [885]
- Street photography [725]
- High school students [685]
- Buildings [624]
- University of Vermont [301]
- Business [290]
- Young women [290]
- Architectural photography [289]
- Construction workers [276]
- College students [264]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [198]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [198]
- Men [197]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [189]
- Women [185]
- Students [176]
- Priests [167]
- Children [155]
- High school athletes [154]
- High school students Dramatic production [148]
- Dwellings [145]
- Stores, Retail [142]
- High school buildings [136]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [132]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [126]
- Bands (Music) [124]
- Young men [124]
- Hospitals [123]
- Burlington International Airport [120]
- Greek letter societies [120]
- Landscape photography [117]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [116]
- Nuns [116]
- Gymnasiums [114]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [110]
- Machinery [109]
- Musicians [104]
- Boys [103]
- High school graduates [103]
- Choirs (Music) [102]
- Interior architecture [100]
- Auditoriums [99]
- Automobiles [99]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [98]
- Actors [97]
- Musical groups [92]
- School children [92]
- Employees [91]
- Basketball [89]
- Trucks [81]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [76]
- Chapels [74]
- Drum majorettes [69]
- Urban parks [67]
- Baseball [63]
- Classrooms [63]
- Street-railroad tracks [61]
- College teachers [58]
- Costume [56]
- Service stations [55]
- Department stores [54]
- Housing [54]
- College graduates [52]
- Family [52]
- First communion [50]
- Bridges [49]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [49]
- Nazareth School (Burlington, Vt.) [48]
- School sports [47]
- St. Joseph School (Burlington, Vt.) [46]
- United StatesWork Projects Administration. [46]
- Veterans [46]
- Banners [45]
- Order of the Eastern StarGrand Chapter of Vermont [45]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [45]
- Choruses [44]
- Christ the King School (Burlington, Vt.) [44]
- Boats and boating [43]
- Nurses [42]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [37]
- Brides [36]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [36]
- S.S. Kresge Company [36]
- Ferries [35]
- Gas ovens [35]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [35]
- Champlain Transportation Company [34]
- Weddings [34]
- Worship programs [34]
- Cathedral Grammar School (Burlington, Vt.) [33]
- United StatesPublic Works Administration. [33]
- Advertising [31]
- Ships [31]
- Snowplows [31]
- Women veterans [31]
- Bridegrooms [30]
- Warships [30]
- Middle school students [29]
- Waste disposal sites [29]
- Offices [28]
- Heineberg Bridge (Chittenden County, Vt.) [27]
- Oil storage tanks [27]
- Snow removal [27]
- Railroad tracks [25]
- Cheerleading [24]
- Confirmation Catholic Church [24]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesLadies Auxiliary.Dept. of Vermont [24]
- Class reunions [23]
- St. Anthony Church (Burlington, Vt.) [23]
- Statues [22]
- Tractors [21]
- Street signs [20]
- Animals [19]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [19]
- Burlington Business College [18]
- High school teachers [18]
- Sewage disposal [18]
- Supreme Cootiette Club of the United States [18]
- Buses [17]
- Drugstores [17]
- Bank buildings [16]
- Christmas greens [16]
- VermontEmergency Relief Administration [16]
- Billboards [15]
- DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [15]
- First United Methodist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [15]
- Marriage [15]
- Radio stations [15]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [15]
- Exhibitions [14]
- Railroad trains [14]
- Athletics [13]
- Flowers [13]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [13]
- Salvation Army [13]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [13]
- Soldiers [13]
- Dance [12]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [12]
- Museums [12]
- Orchestra [12]
- Quarries and quarrying [12]
- Santa Claus [12]
- Snowblowers [12]
- Theaters [12]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [11]
- South Burlington Central School (Vt.) [11]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [10]
- Furniture [10]
- House furnishings [10]
- Lyman C. Hunt Middle School (Burlington, Vt.) [10]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [10]
- St. Joseph Co-Cathedral (Burlington, Vt.) [10]
- Traffic accidents [10]
- Hotels [9]
- Radio broadcasters [9]
- Restaurants [9]
- Airplanes [8]
- Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Cake [8]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Vermont Transit Company [8]
- Bowling [7]
- Centennial Field (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- J.K. Kidder Mfg. Co., Inc [7]
- Monuments [7]
- Tractors Equipment and supplies [7]
- Ballerinas [6]
- Beauty operators [6]
- Burlington Federal Savings [6]
- Chairs [6]
- Christmas pageants [6]
- Dance recitals [6]
- Exhibit booths [6]
- Gardens [6]
- High school students Track and field [6]
- Painting [6]
- Parades [6]
- Rifles [6]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [6]
- Boy Scouts [5]
- Convenience stores [5]
- Elihu B. Taft Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Hardware [5]
- Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc [5]
- Reunions [5]
- Tank trucks [5]
- Trailers [5]
- Van Ness House [5]
- Blackface entertainers [4]
- Cafeterias [4]
- Flood damage [4]
- General Electric Company [4]
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows [4]
- Piano [4]
- Post office buildings [4]
- Rifle practice [4]
- Tennis [4]
- Track and field athletes [4]
- Waste disposal in the ground [4]
- A.M. Kidder & Co., Inc [3]
- Armed Forces Officers [3]
- Burlington Rapid Transit Company [3]
- Cemeteries [3]
- Cosmetics [3]
- Dolls [3]
- First Church of Christ, Scientist (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Free Press Association (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Horses [3]
- Infants [3]
- Motels [3]
- Stoves [3]
- Ticonderoga (Steamship) [3]
- Toys [3]
- Vaults (Strong rooms) [3]
- Winooski High School (Winooski, Vt.) [3]
- Dairying Equipment and supplies [2]
- Flag raising and lowering [2]
- Fletcher Free Library [2]
- Football [2]
- Government vessels [2]
- Manholes [2]
- Mater Christi School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Middlebury College [2]
- Plants [2]
- Tap dancers [2]
- Vehicles, Military [2]
- Vermont 4-H Clubs [2]
- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [1]
- Barns [1]
- Blasting [1]
- Burlington (Vt.)Police Dept. [1]
- Camps [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cows [1]
- Culverts [1]
- Display of merchandise [1]
- Fanny Allen Hospital [1]
- Farms [1]
- Firearms [1]
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Girl Scouts [1]
- Kake Walk (Event) [1]
- Kamp Kill Kare (Vt.) [1]
- Lakeview Cemetery (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Merchants National Bank (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Minstrel shows [1]
- Police [1]
- Radio actors and actresses [1]
- Refrigerators [1]
- Sand and gravel mines and mining [1]
- Sepulchral monuments [1]
- Skating [1]
- Street-railroads [1]
- United Service Organizations (U.S.) [1]
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Place: ("Burlington (Vt.)")
Title: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cathedral High School JV basketball team. To the left of Coach Merola stands Pat McKenzie. In the first row touching the ball is Bob Desautels. Kneeling next to Bob is Gary Desautels. The boys in the middle row are Pat Rideout,left and Dennis Daley, right. Photo no. 24.
Title: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cathedral High School Coach Arthur Merola. The player between number 12 and 8 is Michael Pearo (later became a teacher at Rice High School). Also seen is player Bob Desautels. Probably 1956 Left to right: Mr. Merola, ?Paul Demers, Ed Couture, Bob Desautels, ?Roger Vachereau, ?Walter Campbell, Gary Farrell, ?Ron Ragis, Mike Pearo, and Patrick McKenzie. managers: David Lemna and Denny Daley. Photo no. 25.
Title: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
8th grade Cathedral CYO team taken sometime during the 1956-1957 basketball season. bottom row (L to R): John Mahoney, Michel Thibault, Dayton Contois, John Henry, Michael Rivers, Louis Izzo, Clayton Fuller. top row (L to R): Coach Ray Tafrate, Harold Wimette, Paul King, Robert Carver, Michael Fargione, unidentified #17, Edward Mahoney, Craig Echo, unidentified # 6, unidentified. Photo # 2. See also mcalA01F04i24,mcalB03F08i16
Title: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photograph of unidentified group of bowlers and audience. Location is possible the Burlington Bowling Arena on Pearl Street, Burlington, Vermont.
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
A Hope & Son wrecker transporting a demonlished car. Photograph taken in front 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 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
Rear view of the bed of a Hope and Son wrecker
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a TYDOL gas tank truck operated by the C.P. Smith Co. of Burlington, taken on St. Paul St. Caption reads: "Manufactured by Boston Steel Mfig Company Malden Mass"
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Side view of an automobile parked at McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave as seen from the right rear.
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Side view of an automobile parked in the driveway of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave ; taken from the right front.
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Side view of an automobile parked in the driveway of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave ; seen here with trunk open taken from the right rear.
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a car that has been in a fender bender accident. Car is parked in the driveway. The house to the right is 57 No. Winooski Ave that is next door to McAllister's home in Burlington. 1935/36?
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of McAllister's car parked in his driveway at 47 No. Winooski Ave in Burlington. The four door car is loaded with what looks to be wooden benches and and other wooden equipment he may have used when taking group photos. Photo was taken from a 2nd story window. 1944/47?
Title: Automobiles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a car parked in McAllister's driveway at his home located at 47 No. Winooski Ave, Burlington. Seen on the porch is a portion of his sign "McAllister" 1944/47?
Title: Automobiles - Accidents
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Traffic accident scene at the intersection of North Winooski Ave. at Grant Street near McAllister's home in Burlington. Photo was taken from his driveway. To the left is his neighbor's home at 57 No. Winooski Ave.
Title: Automobiles - Accidents
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The crushed rear fender of a car that has been in an accident. Car is parked in the driveway of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave, Burlington. To the far right is his neighbor's home no. 57. Taken 1935-1936. Fall-Spring
Title: Automobiles - Accidents
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Close up of the crushed rear fender of a car that has been in an accident. Car is parked in the driveway of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave, Burlington. Taken 1935-1936 Fall-Spring
Title: Automobiles - Accidents
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of an automobile accident on Sherman Street, Burlington, Vermont. One car is overturned. The house on the right is No. 38, next to it is No. 32 and 30. In the distance is a sign for a REO car dealership (Brewer Brothers) once located at 1-9 North Ave. View is looking west toward No. Avenue. 1935/36? Fall-Spring
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (A-C)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Amoco Station, corner of Grant St. at North Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vermont. Careys Service Auto Repair. Photo taken sometime between 1935 and 1960.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (A-C)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of Amoco gas station as seen from the backyard of McAllister's home at 47 North Winooski Ave. To the left is 57 No. Winooski Ave. Station is located at corner of No. Winooski Ave and Grant Street, Burlington, Vermont. Photo taken some time between 1935 and 1960.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (A-C)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of Amoco gas station as seen from the backyard of McAllister's home at 47 North Winooski Ave. Station located at corner of No. Winooski and Grant Street, in Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (A-C)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of Champlain Valley Fruit Co. 243 South Champlain Street. Photo taken sometime between 1935 and 1960. Fall-Spring.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (A-C)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Champlain Valley Fruit Co. 243 South Champlain Street, Burlington, Vermont. Fall-Spring.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (A-C)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 - 1957 photo of corner of Grant Street and North Winooski Ave. Careys Service Auto Repair. Taken from the snowy driveway of McAllister's home at no. 47 No. Winooski Ave. .
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