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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- Champlain, Lake [57]
- Burlington (Vt.) [35]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [10]
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- image [141]
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- black-and-white photographs [141]
- photographs [141]
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- Ferries [141]
- Champlain Transportation Company [107]
- Construction projects [50]
- Construction workers [22]
- Boats and boating [13]
- Automobiles [2]
- Interior architecture [2]
- Railroad trains [2]
- Bridges [1]
- Cake [1]
- Landscape photography [1]
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Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Roosevelt
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the Champlain Transportation Company's ferry the Roosevelt cruising on Lake Champlain.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Roosevelt
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of Champlain Transportation Company's ferry, Roosevelt near the shore at docking site.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Roosevelt
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the ferry, Roosevelt, on Lake Champlain.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Roosevelt
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the Champlain Transportation Company ferry, the Roosevelt, cruising out onto Lake Champlain.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Roosevelt
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the Champlain Transportation Company ferry, Roosevelt, cruising out onto Lake Champlain.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Ticonderoga
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the steamboat Ticonderoga cruising in Lake Champlain just inside the breakwater near the waterfront in Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Ticonderoga
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the steamboat Ticonderoga cruising in Lake Champlain just inside the breakwater near the waterfront of Burlington, Vermont. She carries a large number of passengers.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Ticonderoga
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936-07-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 4, 1936 photo of two ferries on Lake Champlain. The City of Burlington is seen to the left as it seems to be easing its way into the water at its launching. The steamboat Ticonderoga is in the distance. People stand ashore watching. Photo #67.
Title: Champlain Transportation Co. - Ticonderoga
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1936 photo of the steamboat Ticonderoga in Lake Champlain inside the breakwater off the waterfront in Burlington, Vermont. She carries a large number of passengers.
Title: Champlain Transportation Company, Anniversary Cake
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1926?
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A decorator cake with a ferry atop has the dates 1826 - 1956 around the side.
Title: Chateaugay
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1925
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The steamer ferry Chateaugay on Lake Champlain. Automobiles can be seen on deck. Originally built in 1888 the steamboat Chateaugay was the first iron hulled steamboat on Lake Champlain. Serving the Champlain Transportation Company for 51 years. Notations on the photo suggest it was used for publication. Undated but may be 1920s, 1930s.
Title: Construction Sites
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated and unidentified photo but this might be an interior view looking toward the dining room of the Ticonderoga steamboat ferry.
Title: Construction Sites
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated and unidentified photo but this may be the deck of the Ticonderoga steamboat ferry.
Title: Construction Sites
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a lot of pipes piled up in the center of a what may be a section of the boiler room (furnaces seen in the background). This may be below deck aboard the Ticonderoga steamboat ferry.
Title: Dow, Mayor Louis F.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A model of the City of Burlington ferry is displayed on the office desk as Mayor Louis F. Dow and another man gaze at it. Undated but may be 1930s.
Title: Shelburne Shipyard
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Is this the underside of the steamboat Vermont with a view of its paddlewheel in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard? See also mcalA18F16i06 for another view.
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i01-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of the steamboat ferry, Vermont, owned by the Champlain Transportation Company, with a large number of people on deck and in the foreground. Undated. 1920s? 1930s? The original Vermont side wheeler was built in 1808 by John and James Winans in Burlington, Vermont. It sank in 1815 but its engine and boiler were recovered and sold to the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i02-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of the steamboat ferry, Vermont owned by the Champlain Transportation Company, with a large number of people on deck and in the foreground. Undated. 1920s? 1930s? The original Vermont side wheeler was built in 1808 by John and James Winans in Burlington, Vermont. It sank in 1815 but its engine and boiler were recovered and sold to the Lake Champlain Steamboat Company.
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i03-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1929
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The steamboat, Vermont, seen under the Crown Point Bridge spanning Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York state.
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Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of the steamboat Vermont III on the cradle at the Shelburne Shipyard just a the water's edge of Lake Champlain. The boat is perhaps being maneuvered into dry dock.
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i05-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Vermont (steamboat) rests in its cradle in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard, Shelburne, Vermont. Late 1920s, early 1930?
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i06-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The Vermont III (steamboat) in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard with a workman working on its underside. See also mcalA17F04i18 for another view. Late 1920s, early 1930?
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i07-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The steamboat Vermont III rests in its dry dock cradle as it is maneuvered out of the waters of Lake Champlain. Late 1920s, early 1930?
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i08-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Vermont III (steamboat) in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard.
![Thumbnail: Vermont [Steamboat]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalA18F16i10-thumb.jpg)
Title: Vermont [Steamboat]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Side wheeler Vermont III, a steamboat ferry, seen lifted out of the waters of Lake Champlain at the Shelburne Shipyard.
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