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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Title: McAllister Portraits with Foxes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A man sits on the running board of an automobile. Behind him are strung several fox furs. May have been taken at McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave in Burlington, Vermont. Undated but may be 1930s and later.
Title: McAllister Portraits with Foxes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A man stands along side an automobile. Beside him are strung several fox furs. May have been taken at McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave in Burlington, Vermont. Undated but may be 1930s and later.
Title: McAllister Portraits with Foxes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A man stands along side a truck. Behind him are strung several fox furs. He holds some pelts and tools used including a wire metal leg trap. Undated but may be 1930s and later.
Title: McAllister Portraits with Foxes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A man, possibly McAllister, stands near an automobile carrying a load of fox furs. Behind him are strung along the side of the car are several more fox furs. Photo caption reads "Part of a Season's Catch." Undated but may be 1930s and later.
Title: McAllister Portraits with Foxes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A winter scene of Louis McAllister with two coon dogs and fox pelts at what may be his No. Winooski Ave home in Burlington.
Title: Military Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 or 1936 photo of three military men; one in dress white uniform. One man with a dog. A pitched tent behind the group. Picture labeled "LT. E. L. Veaudry / 302 F. A. Res. (Field Artillery) Photo #5.
Title: Military Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 or 1936 photo of three military men. One man with a dog. A pitched tent behind the group. Picture labeled "LT. E. L. Veaudry / 302 F. A. Res. (Field Artillery) Photo #4.
Title: Military Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 or 1936 group photo of military officers, mess kitchen crew, soldiers assembled near a row of tents along with the company dog. Photo #2.
Title: Military Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 or 1936 group photo of military officers, kitchen mess crew, soldiers assembled near a row of tents along with company dog. Photo #2.
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
A slightly out of focus photo of two young children seated upon an upholstered stool each dressed in a German / Austrian / Tyrolian type outfit without the hat on the boy. Photo #3. A golden retriever dog lays in front. A fireplace is seen behind. See also mcalA14F16i06 and mcalA14F16i08
Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Two young children sit upon an upholstered stool each dressed in a German / Austrian / Tyrolian type outfit. A golden retriever dog lays in front. A fireplace is seen behind. See also mcalA14F16i06
Title: Portraits, families, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Members of McAllister's family sit on a sofa. The older woman to the left is Mrs. Raymond, the mother of the young lady in the Scottish tarten. The younger is McAllister's grand niece, Joanne Raymond. The young woman on the right is unidentified. A collie dog rests at their feet.
Title: Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Webb Trophy Room (now Shelburne Museum) showing a kitchen area with hearth, table and various wild creatures along with guns and rifles displayed hanging on the walls.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cows in the pasture of the Bicknell dairy farm stand next to the steamship Ticonderoga. The W. B. Hill Co., building movers of Tilton, New Hampshire, navigate the paddle-boat overland to the Shelburne Museum. Photo undated but probably March 1955.
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: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 / 1952. Display of stuffed wild animals and birds with a wall mounted animal skin from the Webb estate trophy room in Shelburne, Vermont. Seen are various rodents, beaver, owl, fish. See also mcalA19F03i05
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 /1951. Wild animal heads are mounted on the walls and fur rugs adorn the wood paneled floor of this trophy room of the Webb estate. Two stuffed bears are seen on either side of the of the room. See also mcalA19F03i03
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Standing stuffed bear with a rifle leaning against him in the Webb estate trophy room in Shelburne, Vermont.
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
c1951 / 1952. Wild animal heads are mounted on the walls and fur rugs adorn the wood paneled floor of this trophy room of the Webb estate. Two stuffed bears are seen on either side of the of the room. See also mcalB21F29i03
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the fireplace furnished sitting area of the Webb estate trophy room surrounded with wall mounted wildlife heads and animal skin rugs. A stuffed bear is seen to the left. An owl in the corner to the right.
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
c1951 / 1952. Display of stuffed wild animals and birds with a wall mounted animal skin from the Webb estate trophy room in Shelburne, Vermont. Seen are various rodents, beaver, owl, fish. See also mcalB21F29i02
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
c1951 / 1952. View of the fireplace furnished sitting area of the Webb estate trophy room surrounded with wall mounted wildlife heads and animal skin rugs. A stuffed bear is seen to the left. An owl in the corner to the right.
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Webb estate trophy room with cooking hearth, mounted kitchen utensils, wall mounted stuffed wild animal heads, firearms, birds, skins, animal skin rugs, trestle table with benches and other comfortable sitting area furnishings.
Title: Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of Webb estate trophy room with cooking hearth in the background. Room is furnished with an overhead animal yoke made into a lighting fixture, mounted stuffed wild animal heads, animal skin rugs, a stuffed standing bear, a trestle table with benches and other comfortable sitting area furniture.
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