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.) [197]
- Colchester (Vt.) [52]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [28]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [18]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [18]
- Winooski (Vt.) [13]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [11]
- Middlebury (Vt.) [8]
- Battery Park (Vt.) [7]
- Ethan Allen Firing Range (Vt.) [5]
- Montpelier (Vt.) [5]
- Champlain, Lake [3]
- Essex Junction (Vt.) [3]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [2]
- Kamp Kill Kare (Vt.) [2]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [2]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [2]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [1]
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- image [896]
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- black-and-white photographs [598]
- photographs [598]
Topic(s)
- Men [896]
- Portrait photography [579]
- Women [461]
- Family [75]
- Buildings [70]
- Interior architecture [43]
- Veterans [41]
- University of Vermont [36]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [36]
- Priests [33]
- Saint Michael's College (Colchester, Vt.) [24]
- Armed Forces Officers [22]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [22]
- College students [20]
- House furnishings [20]
- Bowling [19]
- Church buildings [19]
- Dwellings [19]
- Camps [18]
- Camping [17]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [17]
- Athletics [16]
- Machinery [15]
- Urban parks [14]
- Boys [13]
- Automobiles [12]
- Christmas greens [12]
- Landscape photography [12]
- Young women [12]
- Gymnasiums [11]
- Offices [11]
- Salvation Army [11]
- Knights of Columbus [10]
- Young men [10]
- Animals [9]
- Banners [9]
- Camp Holy Cross (Vt.) [9]
- Choirs (Music) [9]
- Horses [9]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [8]
- Costume [8]
- Infants [8]
- Nuns [8]
- Flag raising and lowering [7]
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows [7]
- Middlebury College [7]
- Musical groups [7]
- Radio broadcasters [7]
- Radio stations [7]
- Santa Claus [7]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [7]
- Actors [6]
- Architectural photography [6]
- Cavalry [6]
- Circus performers [6]
- Construction projects [6]
- Reunions [6]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [6]
- Trucks [6]
- Weddings [6]
- Advertising [5]
- Auditoriums [5]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Burlington International Airport [5]
- Cake [5]
- Chapels [5]
- Choruses [5]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Cows [5]
- Musicians [5]
- Painting [5]
- Railroad tracks [5]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [5]
- Airplanes [4]
- Barns [4]
- Brides [4]
- Bridges [4]
- Class reunions [4]
- Fishes [4]
- Furniture [4]
- General Electric Company [4]
- Girls [4]
- Greek letter societies [4]
- Military weapons [4]
- Stores, Retail [4]
- VermontGovernor [4]
- Wills, William H.1882-1946 [4]
- Women veterans [4]
- Bands (Music) [3]
- Boats and boating [3]
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) [3]
- Classrooms [3]
- Construction workers [3]
- Convenience stores [3]
- Department stores [3]
- Dolls [3]
- Factories [3]
- Farms [3]
- Marriage [3]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [3]
- Railroad trains [3]
- School children [3]
- Service stations [3]
- Street photography [3]
- Theaters [3]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [3]
- Baseball [2]
- Beauty operators [2]
- Blackface entertainers [2]
- Boy Scouts [2]
- Bridegrooms [2]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [2]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Buses [2]
- Cavalry horses [2]
- Champlain Transportation Company [2]
- College graduates [2]
- Dairying Equipment and supplies [2]
- Exhibit booths [2]
- Exhibitions [2]
- Hockey [2]
- Lincoln Inn (Essex Junction, Vt.) [2]
- Modern Woodmen of America [2]
- Museums [2]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [2]
- Ships [2]
- Street-railroad tracks [2]
- Students [2]
- American Legion [1]
- Basketball [1]
- Boxing [1]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- College teachers [1]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Flowers [1]
- Hardware [1]
- High school buildings [1]
- High school students [1]
- Housing [1]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Military supplies [1]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [1]
- Nurses [1]
- Orchestra [1]
- Plants [1]
- Rifle practice [1]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [1]
- Stoves [1]
- Trailers [1]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Vermont Transit Company [1]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesLadies Auxiliary.Dept. of Vermont [1]
- Volleyball [1]
- Woodwork [1]
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Topic: ("Men")
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 Three male boxers pose in a fighting stance for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 Three male boxers pose in a fighting stance for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-0936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Three male boxers pose in a fighting stance for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Three male boxers pose in a fighting stance for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1940s Two male boxers pose for a photo in a fighting stance in what may be a gym.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter 1940s Two male boxers pose for a photo in a fighting stance in what may be a gym. The letters "B C" appear on the boxing shorts of the man on the right.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Five male boxers pose for a group photo.
Title: Boxers: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Spring 1930s-1940s Five male boxers pose for a group portrait.
Title: Boy and Cub Scouts
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, Spring. Boy Scouts Four men are seated at a small table with the American flag and another flag on either side of them. A brick wall is behind them. One man is a priest.
Title: Boy and Cub Scouts
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter, Spring. Boy Scouts. 1945-1956 Four men seated at a small table. The American flag and another flag are on each side of them. One man is a priest. A brick wall is behind them.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A formal portrait of a propeller driven airplane sitting in a open field with 20 men standing and kneeling beside it. The word SHELL is printed on the side of the plane. See also mcalA15F08i10.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings (Pine Street)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934-1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 20, 1934. P.W.A DOCKET NO. 2215 A view of the Central Plant with entrances to the office, garages, open sheds and stables.
Title: Burlington: "Cooties" Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 Back of photo: "Bugs Contacts Grange Hall" Male members of the Cooties Club, under the Veterans of Foreign Wars, gather for a group portrait.
Title: Business Enterprises - C-D
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 photo of a railroad freight car and workmen with a load of Pabst Export Beer for the M. & F. C. Dorn Co, Inc. a bottling company located in the 1940s at 266 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Business Enterprises - C-D
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Close-up of the 1935/1936 photo of a railroad freight car and workmen with a load of Pabst Export Beer for the M. & F. C. Dorn Co, Inc. a bottling company located in the 1940s at 266 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Business Enterprises - E-H
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Elias Lyman Coal Company Undated.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Miscellaneous
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 Interior photo of one of the buildings at Camp Abnaki. Perhaps an office as three men sit at a table with various papers; two of the men with typewriters. Photo #35.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Orchestra
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the Camp Abnaki orchestra. Photo #6.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Orchestra
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of a large group of men and young boys at Camp Abnaki. Photo #4.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Orchestra
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of a large group of mature and young men at Camp Abnaki. Photo #3.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #5.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #4.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #3.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 portrait photo of a Camp Abnaki staff member as he stands outside one of the main buildings and near a stone monument with a plaque. Totem pole seen behind. He is pictured in other camp photos of the 1950s. mcalB04F22i04, mcalA08F01i17
Title: Camp Abnaki - Waterfront
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
circa 1944-1950 photo of Camp Abnaki counselors standing in Lake Champlain. They may also be swimming instructors. Photo #33.
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