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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- Burlington (Vt.) [624]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [41]
- Winooski (Vt.) [38]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [23]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [22]
- Queen City Park (South Burlington, Vt.) [17]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [17]
- Colchester (Vt.) [15]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [12]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [7]
- Williston (Vt.) [7]
- Champlain, Lake [5]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [5]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [3]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [2]
- Middlebury (Vt.) [2]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [1]
- Camp MacArthur (Vt.) [1]
- Essex Junction (Vt.) [1]
- Montpelier (Vt.) [1]
- Waitsfield (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [981]
- photographs [981]
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- Buildings [1053]
- Architectural photography [330]
- Construction projects [229]
- Business [147]
- Dwellings [132]
- Men [70]
- Landscape photography [59]
- Burlington International Airport [57]
- Machinery [54]
- Women [54]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [52]
- Housing [48]
- University of Vermont [47]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [47]
- Automobiles [46]
- Employees [39]
- Stores, Retail [38]
- Construction workers [37]
- Camps [34]
- Nazareth School (Burlington, Vt.) [32]
- Department stores [31]
- Priests [30]
- St. Joseph School (Burlington, Vt.) [28]
- S.S. Kresge Company [27]
- Students [27]
- Bridges [24]
- Young women [24]
- Service stations [23]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [23]
- United StatesPublic Works Administration. [21]
- Auditoriums [19]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [16]
- Girls [15]
- Trucks [15]
- Class reunions [14]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [12]
- College students [12]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [12]
- Young men [12]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [11]
- Railroad tracks [11]
- Rivers [11]
- Museums [10]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [10]
- Animals [9]
- Banners [9]
- Boats and boating [9]
- Gymnasiums [9]
- Bank buildings [8]
- Camping [8]
- Manufacturing and Tool Corp. [8]
- Nuns [8]
- Sand and gravel mines and mining [8]
- Waste disposal sites [8]
- Barns [7]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- College graduates [7]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Factories [7]
- Family [7]
- Nurses [7]
- Church buildings [6]
- Furniture [6]
- High school graduates [6]
- Painting [6]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [6]
- Shelburne Museum [6]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Flood damage [5]
- Hotels [5]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [5]
- Advertising [4]
- American Legion [4]
- Chapels [4]
- Christmas greens [4]
- College teachers [4]
- General Electric Company [4]
- House furnishings [4]
- Musicians [4]
- Reunions [4]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Theaters [4]
- Urban parks [4]
- Bands (Music) [3]
- Boys [3]
- Bridegrooms [3]
- Brides [3]
- Cake [3]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [3]
- Exhibit booths [3]
- Farms [3]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Horses [3]
- Motels [3]
- Oil storage tanks [3]
- Street signs [3]
- Street-railroad tracks [3]
- Trailers [3]
- Airplanes [2]
- Buses [2]
- Cafeterias [2]
- Chairs [2]
- Children [2]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Convenience stores [2]
- Dance [2]
- Drugstores [2]
- Farmhouses [2]
- First communion [2]
- Middlebury College [2]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [2]
- Musical groups [2]
- Railroad trains [2]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [2]
- School children [2]
- Snow removal [2]
- Soldiers [2]
- Totem poles [2]
- United Service Organizations (U.S.) [2]
- United StatesWork Projects Administration. [2]
- Worship programs [2]
- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [1]
- Actors [1]
- American Red Cross [1]
- Baseball [1]
- Boy Scouts [1]
- Burlington Federal Savings [1]
- Cathedral High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Costume [1]
- Cows [1]
- DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Dolls [1]
- Drum majorettes [1]
- Exhibitions [1]
- Gardens [1]
- Greek letter societies [1]
- Handicraft [1]
- High school athletes [1]
- High school buildings [1]
- High school students [1]
- High school teachers [1]
- Lighthouses [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- Sewage disposal [1]
- St. Anthony Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Tank trucks [1]
- Tennis [1]
- Van Ness House [1]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [1]
- Weddings [1]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [1]
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Topic: ("Buildings")
Title: Winooski Bridge (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Winooski Bridge as seen from the falls of the Winooski River. Champlain Mill is seen to the left. Undated but may be 1928.
Title: Winooski Bridge (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Winooski Bridge looking toward the Champlain Mill and showing the rocky ledges and water falls of the Winooski River. Undated but may be 1928.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Old)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1927 view of the Winooski River, the pontoon bridge, the Chace Mill, the heavily damaged Johnson Grain Co. building and a lot of debris.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Old)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the Winooski River and a heavily damaged building to the left (near the Johnson Grain Company?) after the November flood of 1927. In the distance is Colchester Ave.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Old)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a lot of debris including dislodged tracks created by the 1927 flood looking up Colchester Ave on the Burlington side. Building to the right that may have been the Johnson Grain Company mill (Pillsbury's Best slogan seen near top). A sign designating the Winooski town line seen to the left.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Old)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1927 view of an embankment with sandbags piled up. Winooski River seen to the left. Factory mill in the distance.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a heavily damaged building (Johnson Grain Co. mill?) to the left done during the 1927 flood. View extends into the distance with buildings along Colchester Ave seen to the right. Also running off to the right is Lower Winooski Road or later known as Riverside Ave.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1927. Foot traffic alone was allowed on this temporary pontoon Winooski Bridge following the November 1927 flood of the Winooski River. Bridge was built and maintained with the help of troops from Fort Ethan Allen. Permanent bridge built in 1928. Champlain Mill in the background.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1927 view of the Winooski River on the Winooski side, the temporary pontoon bridge built after the November 1927 flood and the Champlain Mill.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the pontoon bridge constructed after the November 1927 flood. Only foot traffic was allowed. Mill buildings seen to the left and far right. The Brunswick Hotel at 21 Main Street 2nd building from right.
Title: Winooski Bridge (Washout) (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1927 view of the Winooski River from the Burlington side. Seen is the old mill that was a branch of the American Woolen Company (later converted to Forest Hills Factory Outlet) and the pontoon bridge after the November 1927 flood. Building to the left may be of the heavily damaged Johnson Grain Co.
Title: Winooski Bridge - Opening Ceremonies (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-08-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
August 4, 1928. Opening ceremony of the Winooski Bridge that connects Burlington and Winooski. Sign for James E. Cashman, general contractor to the right. Banners and American flags fly overhead. Cars drive over the new bridge. Champlain Mill seen in the background. Photo No. 10
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-03-23
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Reconstruction of the Winooksi Bridge after the 1927 flood. Seen here is wood framing for the bridge on the Burlington side looking toward Winooski. Champlain Mill to the right.
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Reconstruction of the Winooski Bridge after the 1927 flood (reopened 1928). In the background is one of the mills (later housed Forest Hills Factory Outlet)
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-06-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 12, 1928. Reconstruction of the Winooski Bridge after the 1927 flood. Reopened in 1928. Champlain Mill seen to the right.
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Reconstruction of the Winooski Bridge after it was destroyed in the 1927 flood. Seen here is one of the new supports. In the background is one of the mills.
Title: Winooski Bridge Construction (4X5's)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-06-12
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
June 12, 1928. A view of the new construction of the Winooski Bridge to the left and of the temporary pontoon bridge to the right. Only pedestrians were allowed on the pontoon bridge that was built after the 1927 flood. Champlain Mill is the large building in the background.
Title: Winooski and Burlington Mills (from Pontoon Bridge)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
May 5, 1928. Seen here are men of Company D, 1st U.S. Engineers, 2nd Corps standing on the pontoon bridge that spanned the river between Burlington and Winooski. Behind is the old mill in Winooski that was a branch of the American Woolen Company.
Title: Winooski and Burlington Mills (from Pontoon Bridge)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but part of May 5, 1928 panorama. Seen here are men of Company D, 1st U.S. Engineers, 2nd Corps standing on the pontoon bridge they helped build that spanned the river between Burlington and Winooski. To the far right is the Champlain Mill.
Title: Winooski and Burlington Mills (from Pontoon Bridge)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but most likely soon after the 1927 Flood. Seen here a pontoon boat in the Winooski River with one of the old mills in background. Photo signed by McAllister and numbered No. 2
Title: Winooski and Burlington Mills (from Pontoon Bridge)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but most likely 1927 or 1928. Seen is a dry spit of land in the Winooski River with one of the old mills in background.
Title: Winooski and Burlington Mills (from Pontoon Bridge)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but most likely 1927 or 1928. Seen here one of the old mills, shoreline and the Winooski River.
Title: Winooski, VT - Winooski River and Mills (Panormama: 7 Photos numbered left to right)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but may be 1920s (or earlier) photo of Winooski River, mills and surrounding area. Photo 3 of a seven part panoramic view.
Title: Winooski, VT - Winooski River and Mills (Panormama: 7 Photos numbered left to right)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated but may be 1920s (or earlier) view of the Winooski River, its bridge and Champlain Mill in Winooski,Vt. Pre 1927 flood because the old bridge is still there. Winooski Block seen left in distance. Photo 5 of seven part panoramic view.
Title: Winooski, VT - Winooski River and Mills (Panormama: 7 Photos numbered left to right)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated view of the Winooski River, its bridge, Champlain Mill and Riverside Ave (Lower Winooski Road), Burlington, Vt. Pre 1927 flood because the old bridge is still there. Photo 6 of seven part panoramic view.
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