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: Burlington Street Department Buildings (Pine Street)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934-1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 9, 1942. Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vt. This view shows the triangular area at the Central Plant yard from which the old Robinson-Edwards Lumber Co. building was removed and rebuilt. Note the Street Department flagpole with the United States Flag and the Minute Man Flag as a reward for the 100% Department cooperation in the buying of war stamps and bonds by its employees.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings (Pine Street)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934-1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vt. This view shows the triangular area at the Central Plant yard from which the old Robinson-Edwards Lumber Co. building was removed and rebuilt. Note the Street Department flagpole with the United States Flag and the Minute Man Flag as a reward for the 100% Department cooperation in the buying of war stamps and bonds by its employees.
Title: Burlington Street Department Buildings (Pine Street)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1934-1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Central Plant building of the Burlington Street Department
Title: Burlington Streets: Howard St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
November 9, 1945. Howard Street Pavement and Sidewalk Project. This view was taken at the intersection of Pine Street looking easterly. Note the new concrete sidewalk on north side and new integral concrete curbs and gutters on both sides of pavement. The Hot Plant Mix Asphalt Wearing Surface was just being completed when this picture was taken. Grading has been completed between sidewalk and curb on north side.
Title: Burlington Streets: Lakeside Ave
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 08-03; 1944; 08-03
Aug. 3, 1944. This view taken from Rutland Railroad tracks over underpass looking easterly on Lakeside Ave. shows condition of shoulder on outside of concrete pavement on the right where new concrete slab is to be constructed. Entrances to parking area will have to be recessed and old transformer pole removed in foreground.
Title: Burlington Streets: Main Street (Lower)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1929-09-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sept. 1, 1929. View of Main Street looking east up the hill from intersection of Church Street. Note the old trolley car tracks and overhead wires, also uneven and worn condition of the old brick pavement. This picture was taken just before constructing the new asphalt pavement by the city street dept., using the old brick pavement as a base. Parked cars and businesses line both sides of the street. On the right is the Strong Theatre with a sign along one side of the building advertising "Vermont home of Chilton Paint Co." In the distant center of photo a car cruises through the intersection of Main and South Winooski Ave.
Title: Burlington Streets: Main Street (Lower)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1929-10-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Oct. 19, 1929 view of Main Street looking east up the hill following the repaving of the street over the old brick surface and the trolley car tracks done by the city street dept. The overhead cable wires are still visible. To the right is the Strong Theatre and the "Vermont home of the Chilton Paint Co."
Title: Sewer Projects
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932-03-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 9, 1932. An automobile is seen at one end of an area beneath an overpass or bridge part of a sewer construction project. Tree trunks act as supports for some of the timbers.
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