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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Topic: ("Bridges")
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1939-08-15
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated Aug. 15, 1939. Original caption reads: WPA (Work Projects Administration) Grove Street Bridge, Project No. 465-12-1-15 This view shows the completed Grove Street Bridge Project which was completed late in the year 1938. It consists of a heavy corrugated steel plate arch with reinforced concrete base, sidewalls, and floor slab, using second-hand building brick for the headwalls and spandrel walls with concrete sidewalks, curbs and gutters and penetration asphalt pavement.
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-07-27
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated July 27, 1938. View of the construction project at the site of the new Grove Street bridge (WPA [Work Projects Administration] Grove Street Bridge, Project No. 465-12-1-15). Direction unknown but is from the opposite of the street seen in photograph no.9.
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated July 27, 1938. View of the construction project at the site of the new Grove Street bridge (WPA [Work Projects Administration] Grove Street Bridge, Project No. 465-12-1-15). Direction unknown but is from the opposite of the street seen in photograph no.8.
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-10-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated Oct. 19, 1938. View of workmen nearing completion of the Grove Street bridge. Paving has not yet begun on the approach to the bridge or its surface.
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-07-27
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated July 27, 1938. A view of the construction site of the new Grove Street bridge.
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-07-27
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated July 27, 1938. A view of the construction site of the new Grove Street bridge. Photograph taken from the opposite direction of photograph no. 13.
Title: Burlington Streets: Grove St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-07-27
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated July 27, 1938. A view of the construction site of the new Grove Street bridge.
Title: Burlington Streets: Mill St.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-11-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated Nov. 1, 1941. Looking westerly, the bridge crossing the Winooski River can be seen. Original caption reads: Mill Street, Burlington, Vermont showing completed job. American Bitumuls Stabilizer being used for 4 1/2" stabilized base on which a 2" penetration armour coat has been constructed. The sidewalk at the right was constructed with soft coal cinders and stabilized with Bitumuls Stabalizer.
Title: Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932
Undated photo but may be 1929 or early 1930s view of Riverside Ave after the resurfacing of the street by the city street dept. following the removal or covering up of the trolley tracks. View is looking toward the Winooski Bridge and the Champlain Mill. Colchester Ave runs down the right side and converges at the intersection.
Title: Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1929; 10-21
October 21, 1929. View of Riverside Ave after resurfacing of the road by the city street dept approaching the Winooski Bridge. Old mill on the left (later converted to Forest Hills Factory Outlet) was a branch of the American Woolen Company and known as Champlain Mills. This mill is on East Canal Street, Winooski.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge, New York state seen to the left with the Champlain Memorial Lighthouse at the far right. Undated.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge, New York state. Undated.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge, New York state, with two benches. Undated.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge, New York state with patriotic festoon banners hanging from the railings and overhead supports. Undated.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge, New York state. Undated.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge, New York state. Undated. An American flag flies from the top most point of the bridge.
Title: Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Crown Point Bridge located in New York state is seen to the left. The Champlain Memorial Lighthouse is to the far right. Undated. Photo 3.
Title: Heineberg Bridge
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of the construction of the new Heineberg Bridge located Colchester Point in Chittenden County, Vermont. The old wooden covered bridge can be seen in the background. Circa 1936.
Title: Heineberg Bridge
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a picture of the old wooden covered Heineberg Bridge.
Title: Heineberg Bridge (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-02-16
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Heineberg Bridge looking toward Burlington from the Colchester end of the bridge. Note the sag in the hub rails which corresponds with the sag in the lower chord.
Title: Heineberg Bridge (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
(Printed Backwards) View of both the old and new Heineberg Bridges.
Title: Heineberg Bridge (new)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937-01-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
First photograph of four comprising a panorama with the original caption: Opening of the New Heineberg Bridge between the City of Burlington and the Town of Colchester, VT. Jan. 23, 1937.
Title: Heineberg Bridge (new)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937-01-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Second photograph of four comprising a panorama with the original caption: Opening of the new Heineberg Bridge between the City of Burlington and the Town of Colchester, VT. Jan. 23, 1937.
Title: Heineberg Bridge (new)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937-01-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Third photograph of four comprising a panorama with the original caption: Opening of the new Heineberg Bridge between the City of Burlington and the Town of Colchester, VT. Jan. 23, 1937. The old and new bridges can be seen in this photograph.
Title: Heineberg Bridge (new)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937-01-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fourth photograph of four comprising a panorama with the original caption: Opening of the new Heineberg Bridge between the City of Burlington and the Town of Colchester, VT. Jan. 23, 1937.
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