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.) [63]
- Winooski (Vt.) [11]
- Colchester (Vt.) [1]
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- image [86]
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- black-and-white photographs [77]
- 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]
- Portrait photography [7]
- Boys [5]
- High school teachers [5]
- Women [5]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Machinery [4]
- Christmas pageants [3]
- College teachers [3]
- Men [3]
- Young men [3]
- Actors [2]
- Architectural photography [2]
- Costume [2]
- First communion [2]
- Hardware [2]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Choirs (Music) [1]
- Choruses [1]
- Christmas greens [1]
- Church buildings [1]
- Employees [1]
- Furniture [1]
- Interior architecture [1]
- Middle school students [1]
- Musicians [1]
- Piano [1]
- Saint Michael's College (Colchester, Vt.) [1]
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Title: Portraits, children, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young children sit in a classroom setting (perhaps a church school class as a small replica of a church is seen on the arm of a chair in the foreground) surrounded by paper cardboard building blocks of the 1950s. Three women attend the the boys and girls. A doll house among other toys are seen in the room. See also mcalA14F16i26
Title: Saint Michael's College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of men (Saint Michael's College students?) pose around a wooden desk for a portrait in a large open room with a blackboard behind. Photo 35.
Title: School Groups - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Ca. 1945 photo of school children enjoying a milk break in their classroom. Teachers stand in the background. School and occasion unknown. (See also mcalB05F20i05, dated 1947.)
Title: Theatricals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 Christmas pageant photo at an elementary Catholic school taken in the classroom. Virgin Mary holds a Baby Jesus and is surrounded by kings, angels, and shepherds (with a lamb). School desks seen in front. Blackboard behind with theme garland strung across it.
Title: Theatricals
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 Christmas pageant photo at an elementary Catholic school taken in the classroom. Virgin Mary holds a Baby Jesus and is surrounded by kings, angels, and shepherds (with a lamb). School desks seen in front. Blackboard behind with theme garland strung across it.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 Slightly over-exposed photo of Trinity College students, perhaps members of an honor society or library workers, in the library or other classroom for a group photograph. Photo #3 or #13?
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Trinity College students in the science laboratory in the Administration Building (Mann Hall). Instructor (?) can be seen on the left. Photo #12?
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Trinity College students in a lab course, using microscopes. Instructor perhaps the woman on left in daisy print dress.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of Trinity College students (members of the international club?) lined up for a photo with their faculty or student leader. Photo #21.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of Trinity College students seated in a classroom, prepared to write. Titles of three rosary prayers are written on the blackboard.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of women affiliated with Trinity College in some way-students? faculty? staff?
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1957 photo of Trinity College students (with a remarkable range of facial expressions) assembled in a classroom. Photo #18.
Title: Trinity College - Sports & Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 Music lesson or rehearsal at Trinity College. Faculty member is probably Miss Dorothy Hunt.
Title: Trinity College, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of Trinity College students sit in wooden student chairs in a classroom with blackboard behind them.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Oct. 1952 photo of a typing class at Winooski High School. Students are working on exercises as an instructor checks their progress. A large poster showing the typewriter keyboard is hung from the blackboard.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Oct. 1952 photo of a typing class at Winooski High School. Students are working on exercises as an instructor checks their progress. Class is taken predominantly by girls, mindful perhaps of their career opportunities.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo (but very likely from the Oct. '52 set) of a math class at Winooski High School, with the teacher, pointer at the blackboard, explaining an algebraic equation. Note the boys' neat haircuts--a hallmark of the '50s!
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo (Oct. 1952?) of students in a classroom at Winooski High School. History? Civics? The unfinished portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart hangs just above the blackboard.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated (Oct. 1952?) photo of what appears to be a home economics class at Winooski High School, with stylish bobby-soxers in aprons cooking, and washing and drying dishes. A poster on the right proclaims: IT'S FUN TO SEW.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated Winooski High School classroom with teacher and students. May be for one of the school's yearbooks.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated Winooski High School classroom with teacher and students. May be for one of the school's yearbooks. Photo #27.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated Winooski High School classroom with teacher and students. Here students face the camera while at their desks. May be for one of the school's yearbooks. Photo #28.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated Winooski High School classroom with teacher and students. Typing class. May be for one of the school's yearbooks.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo (Oct. 1952?) of students in a classroom at Winooski High School. History? Civics? The unfinished portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart hangs just above the blackboard. Photo #16.
Title: Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of male students in a classroom at Winooski High School with teacher observing.
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