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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- Employees [91]
- Business [41]
- Buildings [29]
- Portrait photography [20]
- Machinery [16]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Restaurants [7]
- Architectural photography [6]
- Automobiles [6]
- Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.) [6]
- Service stations [6]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Nurses [5]
- Quarries and quarrying [5]
- Trucks [5]
- Women [5]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [4]
- Urban parks [4]
- Gas ovens [3]
- Interior architecture [3]
- New England Telephone and Telegraph Company [3]
- Offices [3]
- Stores, Retail [3]
- Young women [3]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [2]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- College students [2]
- High school students [2]
- Stoves [2]
- Animals [1]
- Boys [1]
- Cafeterias [1]
- Classrooms [1]
- Department stores [1]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Furniture [1]
- High school athletes [1]
- Landscape photography [1]
- Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc [1]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [1]
- Van Ness House [1]
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- Young men [1]
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Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
1951 portrait of a large group of male employees assembled along side the brick building of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s at 266 Main Street, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
1951 portrait of a large group of male employees assembled along side a large brick building; New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s new building at 266 Main Street, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
1951 group photo of male employees of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s building at 266 Main Street, Burlington.
Title: Stores - IGA (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935; 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935. Management team of Burlington Grocery Co., 47-49 Maple St., Burlington, VT. The Burl. City Directory listed the following administrative positions: Sam C. Blodgett, pres.; Edward F. Holbrook, vice pres.; and treas. William F. Holbrook.
Title: Stores - IGA (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936; 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Employees and/or management of Burlington Grocery Co. standing in front of their respective cars (seen in mcalB18F20i04). These appear to be some of the same men seen in mcalB18F20i03. Cars may be Chevrolets, perhaps '34 or '35 models.
Title: Stores - IGA (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936; 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936. (See mcalB18F20i03) Management team of Burlington Grocery Co., 47-49 Maple St., Burlington, VT. The Burl. City Directory listed the following administrative positions: Sam C. Blodgett, pres.; Edward F. Holbrook, vice pres.; and treas. William F. Holbrook.
Title: Stores - IGA (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
IGA storefront in Burlington, Vt. (City Directory of 1946 does not list this business.) Identity of couple uncertain but very likely the owner and a customer.
Title: Stores - Interiors - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944; 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
"Blanket and Drapery Shop." Also a fabric store, with 3 employees ready to sell Paradise Prints.
Title: Stores - Interiors - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Eight men and eight women in an office, which looks fairly typical but certainly not model (note oddly stacked furniture, crowded layout). Very few clues to the type of business other than the conservative dress code.
Title: Stores - Interiors - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Office interior, with heavy wooden furniture, typewriter, phone, linoleum floor, large radiator, etc. Business unknown.
Title: Stores - Interiors - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Customers celebrating the New Year in Sulham's Sweet Shop, 60 Main St., Winooski, Vt. Harold Sulham is behind the Coke machine; his wife Evelyn is one of the waitresses behind the bar. The smiling lady in front is Charlene Sullivan, and the three boys in the back are (l.-r.) Johnny Provost, Chuck Crowley, and Francis Mongeon (Source: Vincent Feeney's 2002 history of Winooski, p. 147). -- Note the pressed tin ceiling and the display of flags above the bar, very likely those of the Allied Forces in World War II.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 Young women, either students or staff, gathered in a Trinity College office for a group photograph.
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: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The campus dining staff at Trinity College cafeteria, (McAuley Hall?) Undated but may be late 1950s. Photo #18.
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 (or perhaps staff) gathered in an office. Photo #13.
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
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of Vermont Structural Steel building filled with machinery and supplies. Employees work with huge beams and steel plates. 1951.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior view of Vermont Structural Steel building filled with machinery and supplies. 1951.
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
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 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.
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