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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- Ethan Allen Firing Range (Vt.) [1]
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- Street photography [570]
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- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [181]
- Construction workers [126]
- Buildings [70]
- Automobiles [23]
- Church buildings [21]
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- United StatesWork Projects Administration. [19]
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- Housing [15]
- Landscape photography [13]
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- Hotels [9]
- University of Vermont [9]
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- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Bands (Music) [4]
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- Cathedral High School (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
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- High school students [4]
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- Chapels [3]
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- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Convenience stores [1]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [1]
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- Rivers [1]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [1]
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Title: UVM Botany Dept.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Group of young men, including an African-American, possibly UVM students and members of a fraternity, dressed in comic "hayseed" attire and carrying scythes and pitchforks. Housing in background suggests campus setting. Horse-drawn farm implement. Warm and sunny day; occasion unknown.
Title: UVM Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
College Row (now University Place) on a snowy day. Buildings in view include: Ira Allen Chapel, Billings Library, Williams Science Hall, and Old Mill.
Title: UVM Fleming Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 12, 1933. Colchester Ave., looking southwest, with view of Fleming Museum on the left.
Title: UVM Ira Allen Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ira Allen Chapel as seen from the north end of University Place. Other buildings include: Torrey Hall (behind chapel), Billings Library, Williams Hall, and Old Mill. 2 automobiles.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 or 1948 photo of ladies on a parade float (made from a flatbed truck) with sign "Queen Isabella". Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club Squirrel Club. Location outside of the First Unitarian Universalist Society church at 152 Pearl Street (head of Church Street Marketplace), Burlington, Vt. Photo #1.
Title: Winooski
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1928 view of Main Street, Winooski, Vermont with buildings and concrete or cement walls near embankment of the Winooski River. In center background is the Brunswick Hotel.
Title: Winooski
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Brunswick on Main Street, Winooski, Vermont with a sign advertising a pool room. A mailbox is out front. Another sign lets people know that a telephone is available. And a gas pump is seen to the right. 1930s?
Title: Winooski (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of buildings on Main Street, Winooski, Vermont near the bridge (that would be to the left). Johnson Grain Company building to the extreme left (slogan Pillsbury's Best near the top). Fence damage seen to the left.
Title: Winooski Bridge
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Winooski Bridge with trolley tracks in the pavement looking up Colchester Ave. on the Burlington side. Lower Winooski Road (Riverside Ave) bears to the right.
Title: Winooski Bridge
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-08-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 24, 1945. This view was taken from the Burlington end of the bridge looking northerly. Note the asphalt construction crew placing the 2 inch hot plant mix asphalt wearing surface on the westerly half of the bridge while the other half is being used for two way traffic. This wearing surface was placed 2 inches in thickness and tapered off on to the approaches at each end. The cost of this work was borne by the City of Winooski and City of Burlington sharing in the proportion of the grand list of each City and the State Highway Department. The State Highway Department paid for 4/5 of the total cost while the other fifth was divided between the two cities.
Title: Winooski Bridge
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-08-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 24, 1945. This view was taken from the Winooski end of the bridge looking toward Colchester Ave. hill. Note the completed hot plant mix wearing surface on the right half of the bridge (asphalt spreader and roller shown in the distance) while two way traffic is suing the left half of the bridge. The crew in the left foreground is removing the old cold-patch aprons which were temporarily placed near the newly installed steel expansion lanes during the previous season. This wearing surface was placed 2 inches in thickness and tapered off on to the approaches at each end. The cost of this work was borne by the City of Winooski and City of Burlington sharing in the proportion of the grand list of each City and the State Highway Department. The State Highway Department paid for 4/5 of the total cost while the other fifth was divided between the two cities.
Title: Winooski Bridge (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-11-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 26, 1928. New Winooski Bridge taken from corner of Barrett St. and Colchester Ave. Overhead trolley lines and trolley tracks in the pavement can be seen.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Old)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Winooski River and a heavily damaged building to the left (near the Johnson Grain Company?) after the November flood of 1927. In the distance is Colchester Ave.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Old)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a lot of debris including dislodged tracks created by the 1927 flood looking up Colchester Ave on the Burlington side. Building to the right that may have been the Johnson Grain Company mill (Pillsbury's Best slogan seen near top). A sign designating the Winooski town line seen to the left.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1927 view of the Winooski River from the Burlington side. Seen is the old mill that was a branch of the American Woolen Company (later converted to Forest Hills Factory Outlet) and the pontoon bridge after the November 1927 flood. Building to the left may be of the heavily damaged Johnson Grain Co.
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-06-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 12, 1928. Reconstruction of the Winooski Bridge looking up Colchester Ave on the Burlington side.
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Reconstruction of the Winooski Bridge after the 1927 flood. Reopened 1928. View is from Winooski looking up Colchester Ave on the Burlington side. To the far right no longer is seen the Johnson Grain Co. building as it has been torn down.
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of where the Winooski Bridge was swept away in the 1927 flood. Still much debris seen. View is looking across the river up Colchester Ave on the Burlington side. To the far right no longer is seen the Johnson Grain Co. building as it has been torn down.
Title: Winooski Bridge Repair
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 24, 1945. On the Winooski Bridge with view toward Burlington and Colchester Ave. Trucks and workmen doing repair. See also mcalB22F18i07 taken moments apart from this image.
Title: Winooski Bridge Repair
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-08-25
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 24, 1945. Winooski Bridge repair with view looking toward Winooski. On the far right is the Champlain Mill. Looking toward Winooski.
Title: Winooski Bridge Repair
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943-06-02
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 2, 1943. On the Winooski Bridge under repair. Traffic still flows on one side. Center section of bridge dug up. View toward Winooski.
Title: Winooski Bridge Repair
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-08-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 24, 1945. On the Winooski Bridge with view toward Burlington and Colchester Ave. Trucks and workmen doing repair. See also mcalB22F18i01 taken moments apart from this image.
Title: Winooski, VT - American Woolen Mills Flag Raising
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1922
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1922 flag raising at the American Woolen Mills in Winooski, Vermont. This could have occurred on July 4th or perhaps on Labor Day, when the mill sponsored a "Field Day" for mill workers and their families. The street seen here is very likely Follett St., with the Congregational Church at the top of the hill (upper left). (Photo 1 of five images that create a panoramic view when placed together.)
Title: Winooski, VT - American Woolen Mills Flag Raising
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1922
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1922 flag raising at the American Woolen Mills (AWM) in Winooski, Vermont, perhaps on the Fourth of July or on Labor Day, when AWM sponsored a Field Day for employees and their families. It appears to be summertime and a large crowd is gathered in Mill Park for the event. A corner of the speakers' stage is seen on the left. The street on the uphill side of the park is very likely West Center St., and Follett St. is off to the right. Photo 4 of five images that create a panoramic view when placed together.
Title: Winooski, VT - Winooski River and Mills (Panormama: 7 Photos numbered left to right)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but may be 1920s (or earlier) view of Riverside Ave (Lower Winooski Road), Burlington. Billboard along side of road advertises White's Vermont Velvet Ice Cream made by White's Pure Milk Products located at 21 Church Street, Burlington, Vt. ; A. R. White proprietor. Photo 7 of seven part panoramic view.
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