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: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont. Photo #1.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F22i01-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated class photo of Cathedral Grammar School students standing on the steps outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #1.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F22i02-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #29.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #9.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F22i04-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #10.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F22i05-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #21.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F22i06-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cathedral Grammar School students gather outside on the front steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont for a class photo. Photo #8.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F22i07-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #22.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students with one nun standing in the back. They are gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #3.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #1.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students with a priest and a nun gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #6.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #2.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #4.
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 with several women are seated in a horse shoe arrangement. Location is the lower level of First Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont as there are other labeled photos in the collection (e.g. mcalA09F12i01)
Title: St. Anthony's Church and School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949; 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 students of St. Anthony School with Rev. Edmund Marion (right), pastor since 1940, and Rev. Arthur Hamel. The occasion must be the sacrament of Confirmation, since the students appear to be at that age. The church is on the left; the parish rectory, on the right; and the school is behind the church. The church cornerstone is dated 1902, and the rectory was built the same year.
Title: St. Anthony's Church and School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949; 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 blurry image of St. Anthony students assembled for a photograph with the pastor Rev. Edmund Marion and Rev. Arthur Hamel. The occasion is probably Confirmation. (Saddle shoes are obviously part of the school uniform!)
Title: St. Anthony's Church and School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953; 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Graduation Day at St. Anthony's parish. Revs. Bernard Couture and Edmund Marion, pastor, are in the second row. Background building is possibly the school but may be another parish building. A parish hall was built in 1953 to celebrate the parish's 50th anniversary.
Title: St. Anthony's Church and School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Graduation Day at St. Anthony School, with Revs. Bernard G. Couture (left) and Edmund Marion, pastor. Church is on the left; the parish rectory, right; and the school (with extra window lattices...or something), in the rear. St. Anthony School closed in 1971.
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