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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- Barns [23]
- Farms [11]
- Cows [8]
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Title: Animals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of cows and milking machines in a barn. Circa 1959.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View across a farm with dairy barn, other farm buildings, and white farmhouse to mountains in the distance. There are two automobiles in the yard and laundry hung on a clothesline.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a farm across a meadow includes barn, farmhouse, and other farm buildings. A dirt road with utility poles and lines cuts between the farmhouse and the barn.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Autumn scene of a farmhouse with small attached barn next to a paved road. An automobile is parked in the front yard just off the road. Trees are bare of leaves. There are mountains in the background.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a farm with white farmhouse and barn and garden plot. A dirt road with utility poles and lines runs in front of the house.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a cow barn with three men, cows, milking machines and buckets. See also for what may be the same barn mcalB08F12i08 edit
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of the interior of a dairy cow barn with several well dressed men walking among the cow stalls.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of several men (dairy inspectors??) in a cow barn.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a dairy barn with cows in their stalls and milking equipment. See also for what may be the same barn mcalB08F12i01.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a dairy barn with cows in their stalls, milking equipment and two men.
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a weathered barn.
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a very long weathered barn with a patched roof near a narrow dirt road.
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a weathered shingle sided barn.
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of two weathered barns near a body of water. One barn has shingle siding, the other clapboards.
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of farm buildings as seen from a grassy field. Included are a barn with silo, a small shed (maybe a chicken coop) and what may be the farmhouse (seen to the far right).
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 photo of a barn.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coop with a barn and other farm buildings in background.
Title: Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950s photo of a barn with a two door garage next to it. A stone facade building seen to the far left.
Title: Landscapes
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter landscape across snow covered field with mountains in the distance and a barn to the right.
Title: Parizo's Sunset Ranch
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937; 1937
Summer, 1937 photo of a Texas-style swing band in front of Parizo's Sunset Ranch, very likely a popular barn dance venue. Musicians are dressed in cowboy attire and playing their instruments: 2 guitars, violin, mandolin, and banjo. Each is identified by first names(l.-r.): Danny, Shorty, Tex, Ray, and Pewe (Pee-wee?).
Title: Sewer Projects
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937-03-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 5, 1937. View of a long trench as it stretches across a field just passing the corner of a barn.
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