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]
Format(s)
- image [896]
Genre(s)
- 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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Author: ("McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963")
Topic: ("Men")
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of a Veterans Day memorial at Battery Park in Burlington, Vt. Crowd consists of men and women veterans (many wearing uniforms and/or garrison caps), and children. A few men seem to be lined up to speak at the microphone.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of a gathering of veterans at Battery Park, Burlington, Vt. Occasion very likely is Veterans Day. A speaker is addressing the crowd. This may be J. Edward Moran, mayor of Burlington 1949-1957 and then manager of the airport.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of a veteran speaking at Battery Park, very likely on Veterans Day. A small crowd of veterans and citizens has gathered near the VFW war memorial.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 photo of 7 men, all members of the Squirrel Club--evidently, a social organization within the VFW with perhaps a service aspect to it like many other men's clubs.. The Squirrels "uniform" includes white shoes, white trousers with a stripe on the side, a decorative vest and a boat-shaped cap with a variety of insignia, decoration, and perhaps the cootie mascot (also on neckties). Location unknown.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 photo of 16 men, all members of the Squirrel Club--evidently, a boosters club within the VFW with a mission, among other things, to have fun. The Squirrels "uniform" includes white trousers with astripe on the side, a decorative vest and a boat-shaped cap with a variety of insignia, decoration, and perhaps the cootie mascot (also on neckties). Location unknown.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1956 photo of 11 men, all members of the Squirrel Club--evidently, a boosters club within the VFW with a mission, among other things, to have fun. Most are wearing what looks like a garrison cap put on sideways, with a variety of insignia, decoration, and perhaps the cootie mascot (also on neckties). The men are displaying their beverages of choice: Black Label and Schaefer beer in a can. (Beer in a can had been available since 1935--hardly a novelty item.) Location is probably the VFW hall at 69 College St., Burlington, Vt.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1956 photo of 11 men, all members of the Squirrel Club--evidently, a boosters club within the VFW with a mission, among other things, to have fun. Most are wearing what looks like a garrison cap put on sideways, with a variety of insignia, decoration, and perhaps the cootie mascot (also on neckties). The men are displaying their beverages of choice: Black Label and Schaefer beer in a can. (Beer in a can had been available since 1935--hardly a novelty item.) Location is probably the VFW hall at 69 College St., Burlington, Vt.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 photo at a VFW event. A group of men, many of them veterans in uniform, have their right hands raised and are taking an oath as new members or re-affirming their allegiance to VFW principles.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
WCAX radio announcer / broadcaster. Dated 1945 / 1946
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
WCAX radio announcer / broadcaster. Dated 1945 / 1946
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 WCAX radio broadcast with an older woman, three men (one with papers in front of him) and a younger woman seated at a table with microphones.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 WCAX radio broadcast with an older woman, three men (one with papers in front of him) and a younger woman seated at a table with microphones.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 WCAX radio announcer / broadcaster.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1940s WCAX radio announcer / broadcaster.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 WCAX radio announcer / broadcaster.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 WCAX radio announcer / broadcaster with scripts and CBS WCAX banner.
Title: WCAX Radio
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 WCAX radio broadcaster with the American Quiz and Answer Book and a dictionary laid in front of him on the the table.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of store (very likely Sears on Church St.; note wall advertising) customers and/or employees signing up to buy U.S. war bonds. Large poster of GI throwing a hand grenade says: "[Let The]m Have It. Buy Extra Bonds." Informal arrangement of "ordinary citizens" in an everyday setting conveys the idea that everyone can contribute to the war effort.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of store (very likely Sears on Church St.; note wall advertising) customers and/or employees signing up to buy U.S. war bonds. Large poster of GI throwing a hand grenade says: "[Let 'Em Have It. Buy Extra Bonds." Informal arrangement of "ordinary citizens" in an everyday setting conveys the idea that everyone can contribute to the war effort.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a store window display with portraits of war leaders, some of whom had appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Most prominent is a photo of FDR, whose portrait is placed between 2 war bonds. Below is a poster showing a battle-hardened GI saying "Next!" with an image of Japan and the Japanese flag at the bottom of the poster. Display was probably made after Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945), thereby suggesting that Japan will be the site of the next American victory. The usual exhortation to "buy more bonds" is at the very bottom.
Title: Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Bride Frederica Webb Gamble in her wedding gown and her father, William Seward Webb, Jr.
Title: Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Equestrians and equestriennes are mounted and gathered with the hounds perhaps in preparation of a fox hunt on the grounds of Shelburne Farms.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A three man musical group poses with their instruments ; guitar, piano and saxophone.
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