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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- black-and-white photographs [77]
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- Classrooms [86]
- High school students [32]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [26]
- Girls [25]
- College students [19]
- Burlington Business College [9]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [9]
- High school buildings [8]
- Children [7]
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- Boys [5]
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- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
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- Christmas pageants [3]
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Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Classroom setting with women students at the Burlington Business College in 1942. They sit two at a shared wooden desk aligned in rows.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1942
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Classroom setting with both male and female students of the Burlington Business College in typing class,1942. Posters on the wall show the Underwood and Royal brand of typewriters.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Male and female college students are seen in a classroom setting at the Burlington Business College. 1940s? They sit two side by side at shared wooden desks.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Classroom setting with male and female students of the Burlington Business College in a typing class. Photo #4.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Classroom setting with male and female students of the Burlington Business College sitting at double wooden desks. Photo #2.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Classroom setting with male and female students of the Burlington Business College in a typing class. Photo #3.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 1946. Classroom setting with women students of the Burlington Business College sitting at individual wooden desks. Instructor stands at the back holding a book. Photo #6.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
December 1946. Classroom setting with women students of the Burlington Business College sitting at individual wooden desks. Instructor stands at the back holding a book. Photo #5.
Title: Burlington Business College
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Classroom setting with students of the Burlington Business College working at electric calculating machines in a bookkeeping class. A mimeograph machine is seen in the back. Dated 1954.
Title: Burlington High School Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of Irene Elizabeth Frye of Charlotte, Vt., a Burlington High School student seated at a wooden school desk in a classroom with several papers spread out before her. Irene was Head Bank Cashier for her senior class. Taken in Edmunds High School building. Photo was cropped and appears in BHS yearbook Oread 1954, p. 28.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students sitting at their desks in their classroom.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of a geography lesson at the Cathedral Grammar School. Several groups of students focus on different activities in the classroom. Student art work is seen on the walls. Photo #32.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students sitting at their desks reading their science books. Many pictures of plants adorn the classroom. Photo #25.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students partaking in a geography lesson. Various groups of children focus on different activities in the classroom.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled for a group picture in a classroom, dressed for First Communion. Several hold special objects. Baskets of flowers are placed between the two groups.
Title: Cathedral Grammar School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated classroom photo of Cathedral Grammar School students studying geography. Maps hang from the walls. Photo #24.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Cathedral Grammar School music class. Students stand in a very narrow classroom filled with desks. A nun stands behind them. Photo #8.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students seated at their desks in their classroom. Photo #11.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students seated at their desks in their classroom. A nun stands to the side. Photo #5.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students seated at their desks in their classroom looking at a projection on the wall. Window shades have been pulled down to darken the room. Photo #9.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of a Cathedral Grammar School classroom with students seated at their desks studying. Photo #6. Cracked negative.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of a Cathedral Grammar School music class. A nun plays the piano in the front of the narrow classroom filled with nearly 40 students as they sit at their desks holding music books. Photo #7.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Cathedral Grammar School classroom with a nun standing in the back of the room. Students are seated at their desks studying. Photo #3.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students having refreshments as part of their First Communion. Parents stand along the edges of the classroom.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of Cathedral Grammar School students sitting at classroom desks reading issues of the Junior Catholic Messenger. Photo #13.
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