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.) [282]
- Colchester (Vt.) [16]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [13]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [12]
- Queen City Park (South Burlington, Vt.) [11]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [7]
- Winooski (Vt.) [6]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [4]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [2]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [2]
- Camp MacArthur (Vt.) [1]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [1]
- Waitsfield (Vt.) [1]
- Williston (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [435]
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- Architectural photography [435]
- Buildings [324]
- Dwellings [112]
- Construction projects [97]
- Housing [53]
- High school buildings [26]
- Hospitals [24]
- Landscape photography [24]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [24]
- Street photography [24]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [20]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [20]
- Auditoriums [19]
- Business [18]
- Construction workers [17]
- United StatesPublic Works Administration. [17]
- Automobiles [16]
- Gymnasiums [16]
- Camps [12]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [12]
- University of Vermont [11]
- Department stores [7]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [6]
- Chapels [6]
- Employees [6]
- Milton Middle/High School (Milton, Vt.) [6]
- S.S. Kresge Company [6]
- Bank buildings [5]
- Barns [5]
- Flowers [5]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Burlington Federal Savings [4]
- Fanny Allen Hospital [4]
- Machinery [4]
- American Legion [3]
- Chairs [3]
- Farmhouses [3]
- Motels [3]
- Street signs [3]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [3]
- Animals [2]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [2]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- College graduates [2]
- Drugstores [2]
- Farms [2]
- Furniture [2]
- High school students [2]
- Men [2]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [2]
- Railroad tracks [2]
- Sand and gravel mines and mining [2]
- Service stations [2]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [2]
- Theaters [2]
- Trucks [2]
- Winooski High School (Winooski, Vt.) [2]
- Young women [2]
- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [1]
- Airplanes [1]
- Banners [1]
- Bridges [1]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Camping [1]
- Children [1]
- Christmas greens [1]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- College students [1]
- Flood damage [1]
- Free Press Association (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Hotels [1]
- Merchants National Bank (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Portrait photography [1]
- Priests [1]
- Rifles [1]
- Shelburne Public School (Shelburne, Vt.) [1]
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Saint Albans, Vt.) [1]
- Stores, Retail [1]
- Toys [1]
- Van Ness House [1]
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Title: Trinity College, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
McAuley Hall, constructed 1958. Building on the Trinity College campus, Burlington, Vermont. Founded in 1925 by the Sisters of Mercy of Vermont. Closed in 2000. Later purchased by the University of Vermont.
Title: Trinity College, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Exterior view of Mount St. Mary's, a private Catholic girls' school, located at 100 Mansfield Ave in Burlington, Vermont. Undated. Earlier photo than mcalA14F01i07 taken in 1950s. No trees here. This new wing served as the first "home" of Trinity College, before it moved to a new building in 1939 (Mann Hall).
Title: UVM - Graduation Ceremony
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 University of Vermont graduation ceremony in front of Waterman building on campus.
Title: UVM - Graduation Ceremony
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 University of Vermont graduation ceremony in front of Waterman building on campus.
Title: UVM - Grasse Mount
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of interior of University of Vermont's Grasse Mount building located on the corner of Main and Summit Street, Burlington, Vt. Seen are curved archways and furnishings.
Title: UVM - Ira Allen Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ira Allen Chapel as seen from the northwest corner of Colchester Ave. Built in 1925 in Colonial Revival style. Architects: McKim, Mead & White. Dated 1951.
Title: UVM - Mansfield House
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Mansfield House at 25 Colchester Ave., one of two buildings housing the Mathematics and Statistics Dept. Built in 1891 in the Queen Anne Revival Style, it is part of the University Green Historic District. Architects: Wilson Bros. Photo dated 1948 / 1949.
Title: UVM Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Carrigan Dairy Science Building, home of the UVM Dairy bar. Designed by architect Fred Larson and built in 1949. Renovated in 1997; demolished, 2005.
Title: UVM Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
University Place, formerly known as College Row, looking north. Includes Old Mill, Williams Science Building, Billings Library, and Ira Allen Chapel. Bust of UVM benefactor John Purple Howard (1814-1885) in the foreground.
Title: UVM Ira Allen Chapel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of the University of Vermont's Ira Allen Chapel as seen from the balcony. Located in Burlington, Vermont.
Title: UVM Sororities - Southwick Memorial Hall (Construction)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Southwick Hall on UVM's Redstone Campus, current home of the Music Department but originally built to accommodate women's activities. Built in 1935 in memory of Mable Louise Southwick, UVM '05, this neo-Federal style, two-story building was funded in part by Mable's parents and the federal Public Works Administration. If this photo was taken in 1960, the scaffolding was for renovation, not construction.
Title: Unitarian Church
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, Vermont at the head of Church Street (Church Street Marketplace) at 152 Pearl Street. Seen here with wooden scaffolding surrounding the steeple. Date unknown but may be circa 1955 or 1956 when lightening struck the steeple.
Title: Unitarian Church
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, Vermont at the head of Church Street (Church Street Marketplace) at 152 Pearl Street. Seen here with wooden scaffolding surrounding the steeple. Date unknown but may be circa 1955 or 1956 when lightening struck the steeple.
Title: Van Ness House Hotel, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1920
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Van Ness House Hotel in Burlington, Vermont. Once location on the southwest corner of Main and St. Paul Street. In the foreground is seen a portion of City Hall Park.
Title: Vermont National Guard Hangar - Construction (Burlington Morrissey)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
October 1947. Construction of the Vermont National Guard Hangar in Burlington showing the steel arch with a workman up top. Work by Wright & Morrissey Contractors of Burlington. Photo #1.
Title: Vermont National Guard Hangar - Construction (Burlington Morrissey)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
October 1947. Construction of the Vermont National Guard Hangar in Burlington showing the steel arches. Work by Wright & Morrissey Contractors of Burlington. Photo #2.
Title: Vermont National Guard Hangar - Construction (Burlington Morrissey)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
October 1947. Construction of the Vermont National Guard Hangar in Burlington showing the steel arch with a workman up top. Work by Wright & Morrissey Contractors of Burlington.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of the physical plant at Vermont Structural Steel, with track conveyors and pulleys for moving girders and other steel products. The sign for another business, Canada Dry Bottling Co., can be seen in the distance (although no such business is listed in the Burlington City directory of 1946 or '48).
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1935 photo of a steel framed structure, either at Vt. Structural Steel or another location benefiting from their products and expertise.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of perhaps a loading dock at Vt. Structural Steel, or another venue with a railroad track protected by a steel-framed structure.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Construction Sites
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of a construction site, where the steel frame of the building is complete or near completion. Site is unknown but probably downtown Burlington. Several (now vintage) automobiles parked nearby.
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: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a heavily damaged building (Johnson Grain Co. mill?) to the left done during the 1927 flood. View extends into the distance with buildings along Colchester Ave seen to the right. Also running off to the right is Lower Winooski Road or later known as Riverside Ave.
Title: Winooski High School - Misc.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Winooski High School (built 1912) with four students standing in the entrance. The building stood at the corner of East Spring and Leclair Streets and served as high school until 1960. The current high school on Normand St. was built in 1959.
Title: Winooski High School - Misc.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Winooski High School (built 1912) with four students standing in the entrance. The building stood at the corner of East Spring and Leclair Streets and served as high school until 1960. The current high school on Normand St. was built in 1959.
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