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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Creator(s)
Place(s)
- Burlington (Vt.) [103]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [65]
- Winooski (Vt.) [41]
- Kamp Kill Kare (Vt.) [15]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [15]
- Champlain, Lake [11]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [9]
- Bristol (Vt.) [8]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [8]
- Richford (Vt.) [4]
Format(s)
- image [377]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [322]
- photographs [322]
Topic(s)
- Boys [377]
- Portrait photography [201]
- High school athletes [100]
- Basketball [88]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [64]
- Baseball [42]
- High school students [39]
- Winooski High School (Winooski, Vt.) [39]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [27]
- Children [26]
- Family [24]
- House furnishings [19]
- Gymnasiums [17]
- Athletics [15]
- Christmas greens [15]
- Toys [15]
- Women [15]
- Interior architecture [14]
- Priests [14]
- Men [13]
- Cheerleading [10]
- Football [10]
- Students [10]
- Swimming [9]
- Middle school students [8]
- Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School (Bristol, Vt.) [8]
- Musicians [8]
- Young men [8]
- Animals [7]
- Canoes and canoeing [7]
- Church buildings [7]
- First communion [7]
- Young women [7]
- Bands (Music) [6]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [6]
- School children [6]
- St. Stephen's Church (Winooski, Vt.) [6]
- Boats and boating [5]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Classrooms [5]
- Choirs (Music) [4]
- Dwellings [4]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Flag raising and lowering [4]
- Furniture [4]
- Milton Middle/High School (Milton, Vt.) [4]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [4]
- Nazareth School (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Richford High School (Richford, Vt.) [4]
- Vermont Industrial School [4]
- Buildings [3]
- Business [3]
- Dolls [3]
- Handicraft [3]
- Horses [3]
- Landscape photography [3]
- Lyman C. Hunt Middle School (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Pool (game) [3]
- Tennis [3]
- Vermont 4-H Clubs [3]
- Airplanes [2]
- Burlington International Airport [2]
- Centennial Field (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Employees [2]
- Infants [2]
- Machinery [2]
- Rifles [2]
- Trucks [2]
- Woodwork [2]
- Worship programs [2]
- Actors [1]
- Auditoriums [1]
- Boxing [1]
- Boy Scouts [1]
- Bridegrooms [1]
- Brides [1]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [1]
- Buses [1]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [1]
- College students [1]
- Construction projects [1]
- Construction workers [1]
- Convenience stores [1]
- Costume [1]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- High school buildings [1]
- High school graduates [1]
- High school teachers [1]
- Musical groups [1]
- Orchestra [1]
- Piano [1]
- Restaurants [1]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Rifle practice [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- St. Anthony Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- St. Joseph Co-Cathedral (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Statues [1]
- Targets (Shooting) [1]
- Totem poles [1]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Vermont Transit Company [1]
- Volleyball [1]
- Weddings [1]
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Topic: ("Boys")
Title: 4-H Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Winter Boys members of Minute Men of the 4-H Club with a large collection of newspapers loaded on a truck. Essex Junction
Title: 4-H Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Winter Minute Men of the 4-H Club with large collection of newspapers loaded on a truck. Essex Junction
Title: 4-H Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Winter Boy members of Minute Men of the 4-H Club with a man and a women (leaders?) Essex Junction, Vermont Newspaper collection drive
Title: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Cathedral High School JV basketball team. To the left of Coach Merola stands Pat McKenzie. In the first row touching the ball is Bob Desautels. Kneeling next to Bob is Gary Desautels. The boys in the middle row are Pat Rideout,left and Dennis Daley, right. Photo no. 24.
Title: Boy Scouts
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of seven boy scouts wearing scout shirts, badges and neck scarves lined up on a lawn in front of a white clapboard house 1027 Pine Street, Burlington. Home of John C. Allen in the 1950s. Tall boy in the middle MIGHT be Bruce MacDonald circa 1952.
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #4.
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol boys' 8th grade basketball team in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #5.
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team with coaches in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #30
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team with coaches in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #29
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team with coach in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #9
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team with coach in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #10
Title: Bristol School -Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945-1946 Bristol School basketball players assemble for a group photo in front of the old high school. One holds a basketball with the number "7 & 8" Could these be 7th and 8th graders?
![Thumbnail: Bristol School -Class Pictures [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB02F11i14-thumb.jpg)
Title: Bristol School -Class Pictures [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #8.
Title: Burlington High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 Burlington High School JV boys basketball team. Photo #1.
Title: Burlington High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 BHS boys basketball team. Photo #6.
Title: Burlington High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 BHS boys Junior Varsity Basketball team. Photo #2.
Title: Burlington High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
8th grade Cathedral CYO team taken sometime during the 1956-1957 basketball season. bottom row (L to R): John Mahoney, Michel Thibault, Dayton Contois, John Henry, Michael Rivers, Louis Izzo, Clayton Fuller. top row (L to R): unidentified coach, Harold Wimette, Paul King, Robert Carver, Michael Fargione, unidentified #17, Edward Mahoney, Craig Echo, unidentified # 6, unidentified. Photo # 1. See also mcalA01F04i24
Title: Burlington High School - Basketball
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated BHS Boys Varsity Basketball team with coach. Photo #7.
Title: Burlington High School - Groups (unidentified)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1955 Coach John (Jack) Hart with a BHS boys athletic sports team. Photo taken for school yearbook. Photo #2.
Title: Burlington High School Baseball Team
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated (maybe 1955 / 1959) photograph of the Burlington High School baseball team outside on the steps of the school with two trophies and Coach Orrie Jay. Photo #1.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of campers poses a the tennis court at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated July 1944. Photo #21.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of campers and their counselor holding a skunk seen alongside a row of cabins at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated 1951. Photo #26.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Campers playing baseball at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated 1943. Photo #6.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1943
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A shot of the fans in the bleachers watching campers playing baseball at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated 1943. Photo #5.
Title: Camp Abnaki - Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944. A volleyball game at Camp Abnaki. Photo #23.
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