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.) [3]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [2]
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- black-and-white photographs [18]
- photographs [18]
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- Children [29]
- Girls [29]
- Boys [12]
- Portrait photography [10]
- House furnishings [9]
- Furniture [3]
- Interior architecture [3]
- Young women [3]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [2]
- Camping [2]
- Classrooms [2]
- Handicraft [2]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [2]
- School children [2]
- Worship programs [2]
- Animals [1]
- Bridegrooms [1]
- Brides [1]
- Cake [1]
- Camps [1]
- Costume [1]
- Dwellings [1]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- First communion [1]
- Puppets [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- Weddings [1]
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Title: First Congregational Church - Organizations
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sunday School class in the dining hall of the First Congregational Church. Several dressed in their children's choir robes. Photo 8.
Title: May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 portrait photo of children taking part in May Crowning, a Roman Catholic ritual. The girls are in best dresses, wear floral garlands in their hair and hold bouquets of daisies. The two boys stand in back dressed in white suit jacket and shorts.
Title: Mount St. Mary's Academy - May Crowning
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of young adults and children at Mount St. Mary's Academy posed for a group portrait. Photo #1.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
Two images of a young child (perhaps a girl) wearing checkered jumper suit and holding a plush toy dog.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
Two images of an infant girl with large bow in her hair seated in the corner of an upholstered couch. She wears a ring and a bracelet. In one image she holds a composition Mama-type baby doll that has a wide frilled bonnet.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of toddler seated in front of a Christmas tree with presents in a living room that include a googly eye mask face doll and a wooden wheeled riding horse. Note: Western Electric metal nondial space-saver wall telephone (1930-1957) with answer only capability seen to the right.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 Christmas portrait of toddler standing in front of a Christmas tree and presents in a living room. Note: Western Electric metal nondial space-saver wall telephone (1930-1957) with answer only capability seen to the right.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of a young girl in a living room seated on the arm of an upholstered chair. She holds a doll. Beside her is a doll's crib. Behind her is a Christmas tree.
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947; 1946-1947
1946 or 1947 photo of an baby girl seated on a small table posing for a portrait. She rests her hand on a stuffed toy panda bear .
Title: Portraits - Children
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947; 1946-1947
1946 or 1947 photo of same baby girl seated on a small table posing for a portrait. She glances to the side while she holds tightly to her stuffed toy panda bear .
Title: Portraits - Children (Parties)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 birthday party for a young child seated at the table decorated with cake and individual cupcakes for each of the guests. Photo 3. See also mcalB14F12i02.
Title: Portraits - Family
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946; 1945-1946
Ca. 1945 outdoor photo of family with twin girls.
Title: Portraits - Family
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946; 1945-1946
Ca. 1945 indoor photo of family, seen in mcalB14F19i08, with twin girls.
Title: Portraits - Family
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 indoor photo of a woman holding a young girl.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A Christmas photo of a large group of children seated on raised bleachers in a narrow room. Boys (wearing suits and ties) are seated on one side ; the girls on the other. On the floor between the two bleacher sections is Santa Claus (in suit and face mask) along with many other younger children. Each child holds a Christmas stocking filled with gifts and treats. A large decorated Christmas tree is seen in the center background.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Children portray characters in a dramatic production from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass. Some of the characters are the Red Queen, White Queen, Mock Turtle, Mad Hatter.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated portrait photo of women and children being part of May Crowning, a traditional Roman Catholic ritual that occurs in the month of May whereby an image or likeness of the Blessed Virgin is ceremonially crowned recognizing her as Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. Women hold lilies and gladiolas, children hold bouquets of daisies. Some are dressed in robes with flower garlands in their hair.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A large group of children stand in three rows before a stage (Mount St. Mary's Academy) and are dressed for their First Communion.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young children, perhaps kindergarten age, seen in their day care center (may be a church or nursery setting). They sit or stand with nearby tables, chairs, slide, sandbox and baby carriage. A woman stands in the back over seeing the boys and girls.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young children (perhaps kindergarten age) are seen in their day care center (may be a church or nursery setting). They gather around tables, chairs, doll carriage and sand box. Two older women stand in back along with an older girl. See also mcalA14F16i32
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sunday School for a group of children engaged in cutting construction paper and working on a project. Taken in a building on Orchard Terrace, known as "The Pilgrim House", purchased by the First Congregational Church for Sunday School use. House demolished in 1960s to make way for new addition to the church. The children sit at tables. A woman leans over the children also helping with the cutting. The floor is carpeted, the blinds drawn at the two windows in the back. One little boy kneels near a doll house. Photo #9. See also mcalA14F16i31.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young children work on making Halloween paper jack o'lantern pumpkins as they sit at tables in wooden spindle chairs. Two women stand in the back ready to assist and keeping an eye on the children's progress. Photo #12.
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Seven very young children are assembled on a living room couch for a group portrait. They each hold a toy and the little boy on the far left holds a real calico kitten. See also mcalA14F15i18 and mcalA14F15i20
Title: Theatricals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937; 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1937 photo of group of young women gathered in a living room(?), dressed in costume with older adults and one small boy sitting in a woman's lap. Photo #2.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Children's version of a wedding party. A young girl and boy pose as bride and groom. Another boy is the minister, others pose as best man and as maid of honor.
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