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]
Format(s)
- image [1053]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [981]
- photographs [981]
Topic(s)
- 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: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 construction project at an auto sales and service in Winooski, Vermont. Could this be Roscoe's Garage at 262 Main St.? To the right is the Bissonette Grocery located at 254 Main Street.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 gas service station ; location may be somewhere along Main Street in Winooski, Vermont. Could this be Roscoe's Garage at 262 Main St.? The twin church spires in background are those of St. Francis Xavier at 3 St. Peter Street in Winooski.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 completed construction and expansion project at a Winooski, Vermont auto sales and service gas station. Could this be Roscoe's Garage at 262 Main St.? To the right is the Bissonette Grocery located at 254 Main Street.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 completed construction and expansion project at an auto sales and service in Winooski, Vermont; location may be somewhere along Main St. Could this be Roscoe's Garage at 262 Main St.? To the right is Bissonette Grocery at 254 Main.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 Another view of completed construction and expansion project at an auto sales and service in Winooski, Vermont; location may be somewhere along Main St. Could this be Alber Miller's Tydol, Main Street? The twin church spires in background are those of St. Francis Xavier at 3 St. Peter Street in Winooski.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946/47 gas service station ; location may be somewhere along Main St. in Winooski, Vermont. Could this be Roscoe's Garage at 262 Main St.? To the right is Bissonette Grocery at 254 Main.
Title: Bishop Louis De Gosbriand Hospital
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A very darkly developed photo of the Bishop Louis De Gosbriand Hospital located at the corner of Pearl Street and So. Prospect St in Burlington, Vermont. A group of nuns stand on the steps left of center.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Fall-Winter 1946/1947 photo of construction site of the G. S. Blodgett oven company located on Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Lake Champlain to the left. Shadow of photographer's tripod in center lower part of photo.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945/1946 Late Fall - January photo of G. S. Blodgett Co., Inc. Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945/1946 Late Fall - January. G. S. Blodgett oven company. (on back of photo written in pencil is National Guard Armory)
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 5, 1945. For dated photo see also Burlington Streets: Lakeside Ave mcalA05F11i02 City of Burlington, Vermont, Street Department Lakeside Ave. Pavement Base Construction This view was taken from a point near the intersection of Central Ave. looking easterly toward the underpass. The new factory building just completed for the Blodgett Co. is shown with parking area base recently constructed between the street line and the building. Note the asphalt emulsion stabilized base which was mixed the previous day before taking this picture. Cold weather and frost conditions had frozen the base mixture on the left half of the street but the job was continued on the north half in spite of the low temperatures as the street had to be put in condition to receive traffic for the winter, this street being on a regular bus line. The job was continued by placing a 2 inch layer of crushed stone on this stabilized base and penetrating the same with asphalt emulsion and covering with concrete sand as a "blotter" for the winter and then opened to traffic. This project will be continued to completion in the spring by constructing an integral concrete curb and gutter on the south side of a 2 inch hot plant mix wearing surface over the entire pavement area. Note the asphalt distributor applying emulsion and the tractor and harrow mixing the base.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945/1946 Late Fall - January. G. S. Blodgett Co., Inc. at the corner of Central Ave and Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 Misc. Schools / Blodgett Oven Co. written on back of photo. View of a paved parking lot with cars.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1952 Written on back of photo Misc. Schools / Blodgett Oven Co. Over developed photo of paved parking lot with cars.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951/1952 Written on back of photo National Guard Armory
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 piping for heating at the Blodgett oven company, Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 piping for heating at the Blodgett oven company, Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 piping for heating at the Blodgett oven company, Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Metal hardware hang from the ceiling with strips of cloth attached to them.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of piping for heating at the G. S. Blodgett oven company. Two men are seen working.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 photo of dome shaped tent-like structure with banner strung over the entrance. Possibly the same structure for the Evinrude sale of outboard and motor boats. Photo #4. See also mcalB07F10i10.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dome shaped tent-like structure near an unpaved access road next to an open sided shed with motor boats on display. At center bottom a shadow of a person (possibly the photographer). Photo #2. See also mcalB07F10i07.
Title: Bridges: Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of a bridge spanning a body of water in an unnamed location. Buildings seen at each end of the bridge.
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo the interior of a building showing tanks (hot water??)
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo of the interior of a building showing tanks (hot water??)
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 Fall-Spring Metal units of some type in a large open space building. See also mcalB02F17i08
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