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.) [290]
- Winooski (Vt.) [10]
- Champlain, Lake [2]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [1]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [1]
- Vergennes (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [363]
- photographs [363]
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- Business [415]
- Buildings [147]
- Stores, Retail [84]
- Employees [83]
- Street photography [56]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [32]
- Service stations [32]
- Automobiles [28]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [28]
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- High school students [23]
- Trucks [23]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [20]
- Construction workers [20]
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- Women [20]
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- S.S. Kresge Company [13]
- Family [12]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [11]
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- Boats and boating [7]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Drugstores [7]
- Bank buildings [6]
- Beauty operators [5]
- Painting [5]
- Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc [5]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
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- Cosmetics [4]
- Dolls [4]
- Street-railroad tracks [4]
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- A.M. Kidder & Co., Inc [3]
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- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [2]
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- Burlington International Airport [2]
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- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
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- Van Ness House [2]
- Burlington Federal Savings [1]
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- Christmas greens [1]
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- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Interior photo of Nash Motors show room. Royer Motor Co. 173 St. Paul, Burlington, Vt. Over head is spelled out the slogan, "Here is your new Nash"
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Interior photo of show room of Nash Motors. Royer Motor Co. 173 St. Paul, Burlington, Vt. Over head is spelled out the slogan, "Here is your new Nash"
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1950
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1950 Yandow Motor Co. located at 11-15 So Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Pontiac motor cars sales, show room and service. Harry A. Yandow, proprietor.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Night time image of C. P. Smith service station. An outdoor lighted Christmas green near the gas pumps.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Yandow Tire and Battery Company window display with auto accessories. Business was located on So. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vermont. See also Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions mcalA13F06i17
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Shearer Chevrolet, Inc., car dealership 129 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt. Summer, Fall, Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Shearer Chevrolet, 129 So. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt car dealership
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Shearer Chevrolet, car dealership and service. 129 So. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Burlington garages Summer, Fall, Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 Yandow Motor and Tire Co. 11-15 S. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vt. Winter.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Charles P. Smith, Ford dealership. Near College Street at 87 St Paul Street. To the right is the First Baptist Church, Burlington at 81 St. Paul St.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947. Nash car dealership. Burlington garage. 173 St. Paul St., Burlington, Vermont. Royer Motor Company.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Interior view of car dealership and parts department at 173 St. Paul St. Royer Motor Co., Burlington, Vt.
Title: Automobiles - Sales and Service (Q-Z)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 Yandow Motor Company. So. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt View of the parking lot of used cars for sale. Car dealership. Spring.
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
1947 interior view of an open bay area of an auto repair workshop with some machines along the far wall.
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: Automobiles - Sales and Service (unkown)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935 / 1936 photo of a Chevrolet car dealership with employees standing out front. Could this be Shearer located in Burlington on S. Winooski Ave?
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
1947 Interior photo of show room of Nash Motors. Royer Motor Co. 173 St. Paul, Burlington, Vt. Over head is spelled out the slogan, "Here is your new Nash"
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
A Shell gas station attendant wipes the windshield of a Plymouth automobile. Date and location unknown.
Title: Beauty Salon
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 interior view of a beauty parlor or salon. A curtain divides the sitting area from the work area. Hair dryers and curling machines to the left. Fall-Spring
Title: Beauty Salon
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 interior view of a beauty parlor or salon. A curtain divides the sitting area from the work area. Hair dryers and curling machines to the right. Fall-Spring
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