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.) [136]
- Winooski (Vt.) [32]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [25]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [11]
- Bristol (Vt.) [6]
Format(s)
- image [277]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [276]
- photographs [276]
Topic(s)
- High school buildings [277]
- Portrait photography [157]
- High school students [125]
- Cathedral High School (Burlington, Vt.) [86]
- High school graduates [66]
- Architectural photography [26]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [25]
- Winooski High School (Winooski, Vt.) [24]
- Young men [23]
- Girls [21]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [20]
- Auditoriums [16]
- Shelburne Public School (Shelburne, Vt.) [16]
- High school athletes [15]
- Priests [12]
- Baseball [11]
- Saint Francis Xavier School (Winooski, Vt.) [9]
- Classrooms [8]
- Interior architecture [8]
- Nuns [7]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Milton Middle/High School (Milton, Vt.) [6]
- Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School (Bristol, Vt.) [6]
- Construction projects [4]
- High school students Dramatic production [4]
- Basketball [3]
- Actors [2]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Furniture [2]
- Nazareth School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- St. Joseph School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Street photography [2]
- Boys [1]
- Buildings [1]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [1]
- Cafeterias [1]
- Choirs (Music) [1]
- Choruses [1]
- Christmas pageants [1]
- Costume [1]
- Men [1]
- Musical groups [1]
- Musicians [1]
- Orchestra [1]
- School children [1]
- Snow removal [1]
- Snowplows [1]
- Tractors [1]
- Trucks [1]
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Topic: ("High school buildings")
Title: Shelburne High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the graduating class at Shelburne High School, consisting of 5 girls and 7 boys. The school closed in 1964.
Title: Shelburne High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952; 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 / 1952 group portrait photo of Shelburne Public School students. Photo #4.
Title: Shelburne High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the graduating class at Shelburne High School, consisting of 5 girls and 7 boys. Principal (1935-1960) John E. McGee is in the back row, far left. The school closed in 1964.
Title: Shelburne High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated here but dated 1943 elsewhere (see mcalB18F04i12): the graduating class at Shelburne High School, consisting of 5 girls and 1 boy. The school closed in 1964. Photo #2.
Title: Shelburne High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the graduating class at Shelburne High School, consisting of 5 girls and 7 boys. The school closed in 1964.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950; 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 2.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950; 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950; 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 3.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 1.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 3.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953; 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 2.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953; 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 1.
Title: St. Francis Xavier
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953; 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1953 St. Francis Xavier graduating class gathered outside the school in cap and gown. Located in Winooski, Vt. Photo 3.
Title: Theatricals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957-1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 cast portrait photo from a high school dramatic production "The Lowland Sea", a contemporary opera performed in the auditorium of Edmunds High School building (Burlington High School) Photo #3. See 1958 BHS Oread yearbook for writeup. Photo #2.
Title: Theatricals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957-1958
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 cast portrait photo from a high school dramatic production "The Lowland Sea", a contemporary opera performed in the auditorium of Edmunds High School building (Burlington High School) Photo #4. See 1958 BHS Oread yearbook for writeup.
Title: Vergennes High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of 3 members of the Vergennes High School girls basketball team in the gymnasium. (This is in the older high school, which was built in 1871 and demolished in 1964. The present union high school opened in 1959.)
Title: Vergennes High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 -1945 Vergennes High School boys basketball team, with coach and manager, in the school gymnasium. (Vergennes High School was built in 1871, replaced in 1959 by Vergennes Union High School, and demolished in 1964.)
Title: Vergennes High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 -1945 Vergennes High School girls basketball team, with coaches and school principal(?) in the gymnasium. A trophy is on the floor. Photo #2.
Title: Vergennes High School - Students & Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of faculty and students in front of Vergennes High School. The school was built in 1871, replaced by the union high school in 1959, and demolished in 1964. Photo #4.
Title: Vergennes High School - Students & Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of faculty and students in front of Vergennes High School. The school was built in 1871, replaced by the union high school in 1959, and demolished in 1964.
Title: Vergennes High School - Students & Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of faculty and staff at Vergennes High School, including two--perhaps more--clergymen, one of whom is Rev. Alfred H. Couture (back row, far right), St. Peter Church (Catholic), Vergennes. Photo #1.
Title: Vergennes High School - Students & Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 faculty and students (although these may be mostly students) in front of Vergennes High School. This is the main entrance of the high school, which was built in 1871, replaced by the union high school in 1959, and demolished in 1964. Photo #3.
Title: Vergennes High School - Students & Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 faculty and students (although these may be mostly students) in front of Vergennes High School. This is the main entrance of the high school, which was built in 1871, replaced by the union high school in 1959, and demolished in 1964. Gentleman (back row, right) with bow tie is very likely the principal.
Title: Vergennes High School - Students & Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 Vergennes High School student organization with military style uniform, perhaps the marching band without their instruments? Director is in front row, center. Background is the entrance to the high school, which was built in 1871. Photo #6
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