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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Place: ("Ethan Allen Firing Range (Vt.)")
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
Military men in the field with scopes and tripods.
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
Group of military men firing artillery. Photo #10.
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
Group of military men with scopes and binoculars. Photo #17.
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
Group of military men with scopes and binoculars. Photo #54.
Title: Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Range (Underhill)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1928 photo of military men and horse drawn ordnance in formation. Tents in background. Photo #14.
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
Military men and horse drawn ordnance in formation with military weapons on display. Tents in background. Photo #23.
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
Group of military men looking through binoculars. Photo #51.
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
Group of military men with horse drawn equipment in front of abandoned orchard. Photo No. 10. Sale price 3 for $1.00.
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
Landscape view of crowd of people, automobiles, cranes, and excavation at the Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Range (Underhill). Photo #9.
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
Military man, reading, military man with sword, girl in hat, in front of stone fence hedgerow.
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
Three soldiers standing next to boulder on which there is a sign reading: Machine Gun School, 18thBrig. 1stC.A., Stand Clear. Under butternut tree, tents in background.
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
Group of military men under trees with scopes. Some are reclining or seated.
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
Horse drawn ordnance used for carrying military weapons, horses, and tents in background.
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
Military men in brush with binoculars and scopes.
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
Group of military men in brush with binoculars and scopes. Photo #56.
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 five military men in front of tents. Photo #56.
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
1930s food staff and outdoor stoves in front of tents at the Fort Ethan Allen Artillery Range (Underhill). Photo # 5.
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
Military men with communication equipment near wagon. Line of mounted men in background. Photo no. 6. Sale price 25 cents.
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
Military men seated under trees; some of them are using binoculars. Photo #5.
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 elderly men in suits, two of whom are holding shovels, in front of a platform with folding chairs and an excavating machine. A ground-breaking ceremony possibly. Photo #3.
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
Military men in the field firing artillery.
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 in front of tents.
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 in front of tents.
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 in front of flagpole.
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
Machine Guns in Action, Artillery Range, Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., smoke screen. Military men seated on the ground watching a machine gun demonstration.
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