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.) [1]
- Camp MacArthur (Vt.) [1]
- Waitsfield (Vt.) [1]
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- image [41]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [39]
- photographs [39]
Topic(s)
- Farms [41]
- Landscape photography [15]
- Barns [11]
- Cows [11]
- Farmhouses [10]
- Buildings [3]
- Men [3]
- Portrait photography [3]
- Tractors Equipment and supplies [3]
- Animals [2]
- Architectural photography [2]
- Cattle [2]
- Creameries [2]
- Dairying Equipment and supplies [2]
- Family [2]
- Young men [2]
- Auditoriums [1]
- Bulls [1]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Business [1]
- Women [1]
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Title: Camp MacArthur (Waitsfield, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of campers farming in the field while at Camp MacArthur in Waitsfield, Vermont.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View across a farm with dairy barn, other farm buildings, and white farmhouse to mountains in the distance. There are two automobiles in the yard and laundry hung on a clothesline.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a farm across a meadow includes barn, farmhouse, and other farm buildings. A dirt road with utility poles and lines cuts between the farmhouse and the barn.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View across a valley showing farms and farm buildings and mountains in the distance. In the foreground is a fence with a picket gate and a stone walk leading up to it.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a farm with white farmhouse and barn and garden plot. A dirt road with utility poles and lines runs in front of the house.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of upland meadow where a farmer is standing with his grazing herd of dairy cows of different breeds.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of a wooded hillside across a valley in which there are a house and a farm. There is excavating equipment and excavation is being done. In the foreground are piles of earth and the stumps of cut trees.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a woman in farm work clothes and hat working a patch of ground.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a young man using a hoe and working in a large newly planted crop field.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a young man with a scythe working in a hay field.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of the interior of a dairy cow barn with several well dressed men walking among the cow stalls.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of several men (dairy inspectors??) in a cow barn.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a dairy barn with cows in their stalls and milking equipment. See also for what may be the same barn mcalB08F12i01.
Title: Farms
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the interior of a dairy barn with cows in their stalls, milking equipment and two men.
Title: Farms - Barns
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of farm buildings as seen from a grassy field. Included are a barn with silo, a small shed (maybe a chicken coop) and what may be the farmhouse (seen to the far right).
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of a hay field with farm workers driving a tracker and cut hay being sent through a shoot and into a hay wagon.
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of farm workers haying. They drive a tractor with a hay wagon behind.
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of a hay field with two farmhands driving a tractor. A hay wagon is seen behind with the hay coming out of a shoot and going into the wagon.
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a horse drawn plow cutting hay.
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947/1948 photo of a hay field with a farmhand driving a tractor and hay cutting machinery.
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a horse drawn plow cutting hay with a barn and other farm buildings in the background.
Title: Farms - Haying
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of a farmhand riding horse driven hay cutting machinery.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of a farm with dairy cows in a pasture, farm buildings seen in the background and a man on a horse to the far right.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a young bull with its handler standing outside with farm buildings in the background.
Title: Farms - Livestock
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 farm scene with dairy cows in a pasture.
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