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.) [27]
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- black-and-white photographs [38]
- photographs [38]
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- Business [38]
- Interior architecture [38]
- Buildings [15]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [7]
- Bank buildings [5]
- Machinery [4]
- Stores, Retail [4]
- S.S. Kresge Company [3]
- Department stores [2]
- Drugstores [2]
- Offices [2]
- Advertising [1]
- Painting [1]
- Railroad tracks [1]
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Title: Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946; 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington. Arrangement of display cases forms an arch.
Title: Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946; 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington.
Title: Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior of Sherwin-Williams Paints store in Burlington, Vt. at 152 College St., in the block across from City Hall park. Long rectangular showroom with hardwood floors has wallpaper samples on the left side and displays of other products throughout the store.
Title: Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Other side of showroom at Sherwin-Williams Paints, as seen in mcalB18F26i08. This side features paints (note pyramid display) and other finishes. Several pieces of unfinished furniture are for sale also. The 152 College St. site is across from City Hall park.
Title: Stores, Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of a retail business selling wallpaper. Sample books are open displaying various wallpapers available. Also a variety of different wallpapers are seen on the walls of the showroom. A decorative tin or plaster ceiling is also seen.
Title: Stores, Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of what may be an office supply store. Wall shelves are lined with boxes, soft sided leather brief cases and other supplies. A large selection of pens are seen in the glass display case in front. Folded American flags are also seen on the under shelves of the long front counter.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 Interior view of the Vermont Structural Steel plant on 207 Flynn Ave, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 Interior view of the Vermont Structural Steel plant on 207 Flynn Ave, Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 Interior view of the Vermont Structural Steel plant on 207 Flynn Ave, Burlington, Vermont.
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 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 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 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.
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