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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- Gymnasiums [63]
- High school students [63]
- Cathedral High School (Burlington, Vt.) [35]
- Portrait photography [31]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [24]
- Musicians [8]
- Drum majorettes [6]
- Musical groups [4]
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Topic: ("High school students")
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Topic: ("Gymnasiums")
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 1945 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled on bleachers in the school gymnasium for a class picture. Photo #16.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-04; 1945-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 1945 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled on bleachers in the school gymnasium for a class picture. Photo #14.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-04
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 1945 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled on bleachers in the school gymnasium for a class picture. Photo #13.
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, flank the close assembly of students and drum majorettes. Venue appears to be school ballroom or gymnasium with stage. A 48-star American flag and mountain scenery comprise the background. Photo #38.
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, stand behind the assembly of band musicians. Venue appears to be school gymnasium/ballroom, here, flooded with sunlight. In the background is a stage with mountain scenery. Photo no. 27.
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, stand behind the assembly of band musicians. Venue appears to be school gymnasium/ballroom, here flooded with sunlight. In the background is a stage with mountain scenery. Photo no. 28
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, flank the close assembly of students and drum majorettes. Venue appears to be school ballroom or gymnasium with stage. A 48-star American flag and mountain scenery comprise the background. Photo no. 39.
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, flank the close assembly of students and drum majorettes. Venue appears to be school ballroom or gymnasium with stage. A 48-star American flag and mountain scenery comprise the background. Photo no. 37.
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, flank the close assembly of students and drum majorettes. Venue appears to be school ballroom or gymnasium with stage. A 48-star American flag and mountain scenery comprise the background. Photo no. 36.
Title: Cathedral High School - Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band. Drum major and band director, Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), dressed in white, flank the close assembly of band musicians, drum majorette, and baton twirlers. Venue appears to be school ballroom or gymnasium with stage. A 48-star American flag and village scenery comprise the background. Photo no. missing.
Title: Musical Ensembles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Burlington High school student band? Group assembled on stage in the auditorium located at the Edmunds High School building in Burlington, Vermont where BHS was held. Event may be All State. Undated. Photo #1?
Title: Rice Memorial High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Small group of high school students, seated for a group photo in the Rice High School gym.
Title: Rice Memorial High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Small group of high school students, seated for a group photo in the Rice High School gym.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with a faculty member for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with a faculty member for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with two faculty members for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with two faculty members for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Large group of students at Rice Memorial High School seated in the gym for a group photo. (Dress code for the girls apparently stricter than that for the boys.)
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Small co-ed group of Rice High School students, seated in the gym for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice High School students seated in the gym for a group photo.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Drum majorettes! Photo taken in Rice Memorial High School gym.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Rice Memorial High School concert and marching band, with bandmaster Joseph F. Lechnyr (1895-1959) in white uniform. Music supervisor at Cathedral High School since 1921, and conductor of many music ensembles in the Champlain Valley, Lechnyr lived only a few weeks after Rice opened, dying of a heart attack on March 21, 1959.
Title: Rice Memorial High School - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959; 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Large group of Rice Memorial High School students, in uniform, seated in the gym for a group photo.
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