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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- image [415]
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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]
- Construction projects [26]
- High school students [23]
- Trucks [23]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [20]
- Construction workers [20]
- Department stores [20]
- Women [20]
- Architectural photography [19]
- S.S. Kresge Company [13]
- Family [12]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [11]
- Offices [11]
- Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.) [9]
- Dwellings [9]
- Restaurants [9]
- Exhibit booths [8]
- Exhibitions [8]
- Auditoriums [7]
- 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]
- Convenience stores [4]
- Cosmetics [4]
- Dolls [4]
- Street-railroad tracks [4]
- Trailers [4]
- A.M. Kidder & Co., Inc [3]
- Animals [3]
- Billboards [3]
- Boys [3]
- Church buildings [3]
- Gas ovens [3]
- Manufacturing and Tool Corp. [3]
- Railroad tracks [3]
- Refrigerators [3]
- A.D. Pease Grain Co. [2]
- Airplanes [2]
- Burlington International Airport [2]
- Cows [2]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Furniture [2]
- Hotels [2]
- House furnishings [2]
- Landscape photography [2]
- Oil storage tanks [2]
- Puppets [2]
- Stoves [2]
- Toys [2]
- Van Ness House [2]
- Burlington Federal Savings [1]
- Burlington Rapid Transit Company [1]
- Buses [1]
- Children [1]
- Christmas greens [1]
- Dairying Equipment and supplies [1]
- Farms [1]
- Flowers [1]
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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- Snow removal [1]
- Street signs [1]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Tank trucks [1]
- Theaters [1]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [1]
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- Vergennes Inn (Vt.) [1]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [1]
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Title: Vermont Structural Steel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Two male employees working with large machinery at the Vermont Structural Steel plant on Flynn Ave in Burlington, Vermont. Dated 1951.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of the physical plant at Vermont Structural Steel, with track conveyors and pulleys for moving girders and other steel products. The sign for another business, Canada Dry Bottling Co., can be seen in the distance (although no such business is listed in the Burlington City directory of 1946 or '48).
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of Vermont Structural Steel Co. building with tractor trailer loaded with steel beam and parked along railroad tracks.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of machinery and materials outside the buildings of Vt. Structural Steel.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of employee at Vt. Structural Steel working on a cone-shaped architectural piece.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 1951 photo of the interior of a Vermont Structural Steel building that covers a railroad track. Although blurry in some areas, an interesting study of perspective and light.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of an employee at Vt. Structural Steel working on a cone-shaped structure for a building or machine.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of the interior of a large warehouse and shop at Vt. Structural Steel.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of the interior of a large shop at Vt. Structural Steel, with a variety of machines, equipment, and steel products contained in a massive steel edifice.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of perhaps a loading dock at Vt. Structural Steel, or another venue with a railroad track protected by a steel-framed structure.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a warehouse at Vt. Structural Steel, with large piles of beams and J-shaped rods, very likely for reinforcing concrete.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a large workshop at Vt. Structural Steel. Among the loose arrangement of fuel tanks, machinery, and hoses, there are piles of steel products in various shapes and sizes.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a large shop at Vt. Structural Steel, filled with steel processing machines, piles of beams and sheets of steel, and cylindrical tanks.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo, taken from an elevated vantage, of a large shop at Vt. Structural Steel: tools, tanks, machines, and piles of steel and steel products.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of the administrative office at Vt. Structural Steel. Three employees are present but difficult to see because of the under exposure and blurred areas.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a shop at Vt. Structural Steel, where a cone-shaped structure is being made for a building or machine. Fashioning custom-made objects from steel was one of several services offered by Vt. Structural Steel.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a large warehouse at Vt. Structural Steel, with several employees preparing to ship some I-beams, some of which are massive (left).
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of an employee at Vt. Structural Steel working on a cone-shaped structure for a building or machine.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a shop at Vt. Structural Steel, with two employees moving a sheet of steel through a machine.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of an employee at Vt. Structural Steel grinding the seam of a large steel structure.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo, somewhat underexposed, of an employee at Vt. Structural Steel standing in front of a large machine.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-03
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1951 photo of a building interior, presumably at Vt. Structural Steel, constructed mostly of steel beams and corrugated metal, with a few air ducts woven into the rows of beams.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a store window display promoting war bonds ("Buy an Extra U.S. War Bond Now!") and heralding the 4th War Loan (or fund raising) campaign. The display also pays tribute to Poland ("a Nation Bathed in Blood") and the strength of the Polish people. One poster has "an open letter to the unconquerable (?) Poles."
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