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.) [100]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [10]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [8]
- Colchester (Vt.) [4]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [3]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [3]
- Queen City Park (South Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Winooski (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [272]
- photographs [272]
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- Interior architecture [382]
- Portrait photography [128]
- House furnishings [119]
- Buildings [110]
- Family [68]
- Business [38]
- Architectural photography [35]
- Furniture [20]
- Toys [18]
- Dolls [17]
- Girls [17]
- Machinery [17]
- Young women [17]
- S.S. Kresge Company [15]
- Boys [14]
- Brides [14]
- Chairs [14]
- Department stores [14]
- Bridegrooms [12]
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- Weddings [12]
- Young men [12]
- Auditoriums [11]
- Infants [11]
- Nuns [10]
- Service stations [10]
- Chapels [9]
- Gymnasiums [9]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [9]
- Church buildings [8]
- High school buildings [8]
- Housing [8]
- Marriage [8]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Animals [7]
- Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [7]
- Cake [6]
- Offices [6]
- Bank buildings [5]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [5]
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- Museums [5]
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- Automobiles [4]
- Fanny Allen Hospital [4]
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- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [4]
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- Stores, Retail [4]
- Students [4]
- Banners [3]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Costume [3]
- Dairying Equipment and supplies [3]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [3]
- School children [3]
- St. Joseph Co-Cathedral (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Statues [3]
- Actors [2]
- Boats and boating [2]
- Camps [2]
- Cathedral Grammar School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- College students [2]
- Construction workers [2]
- Drugstores [2]
- Ferries [2]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows [2]
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- Piano [2]
- Ships [2]
- Ticonderoga (Steamship) [2]
- Advertising [1]
- American Legion [1]
- Bands (Music) [1]
- Bowling [1]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Burlington International Airport [1]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Choirs (Music) [1]
- Choruses [1]
- Christmas pageants [1]
- Classrooms [1]
- First communion [1]
- High school students [1]
- High school students Dramatic production [1]
- Musical groups [1]
- Musicians [1]
- Priests [1]
- Railroad tracks [1]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Rifles [1]
- Salvation Army [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- Shelburne Museum [1]
- St. Stephen's Church (Winooski, Vt.) [1]
- Worship programs [1]
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Topic: ("Interior architecture")
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 piping for heating at the Blodgett oven company, Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 piping for heating at the Blodgett oven company, Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 piping for heating at the Blodgett oven company, Lakeside Ave, Burlington, Vt. Metal hardware hang from the ceiling with strips of cloth attached to them.
Title: Blodgett Oven Company - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of piping for heating at the G. S. Blodgett oven company. Two men are seen working.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 view of the inside lower level of a large boat. A stairway leads to top deck.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 view of the inside lower level of a large boat. A stairway leads to top deck.
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo the interior of a building showing tanks (hot water??)
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo of the interior of a building showing tanks (hot water??)
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 Fall-Spring Metal units of some type in a large open space building. See also mcalB02F17i08
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 Fall-Spring Metal units and large machinery in a large open space building. See also Buildings - Mechanical Devices mcalB02F17i08
Title: Buildings - Interiors, Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 Fall-Spring Very dark or underdeveloped photo of large metal units and machinery in a large open space building.
Title: Buildings - Mechanical Devices
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 photo of metal machinery of some type with a roller in a large open space building with pipes overhead. See also mcalB02F18i03 and mcalB02F18i04.
Title: Buildings - Mechanical Devices
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1949 photo of the interior of a building showing several units arranged along a wall with a narrow passageway.
Title: Buildings - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1929-1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a hallway being remolded or repainted. Photo #23. First Congregational Church, Burlington, Vermont???
Title: Buildings - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: Fall-Spring
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of the interior of a building show a wood floor, windows and heating radiators to the left, shelving to the right.
Title: Buildings - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956-1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of the interior of a building showing a wood floor, window and heat radiators to the left, shelving to the right.
Title: Buildings - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo of interior V shaped wooden roof rafters of a wood frame building.
Title: Buildings - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948/1949 photo of the interior of a wood frame building showing the construction of the flooring and walls. A brick chimney is seen in the background along with wooden ladders.
Title: Buildings - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1935/1936 interior photo of a building with walls and flooring laid with large blocks of material (concrete, cement??) Overhead are seen metal pipes.
Title: Burlington Airport
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Possibly interior of the administration building showing the main waiting room or terminal with ticket counter at the Burlington Municipal Airport in Burlington, Vermont. A row of armed chairs to the extreme left of the photo. Possible flight schedule on wall board in upper center. Large wall size bulletin board to the right with postings.
Title: Burlington City Hall
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1927; 1937, undated; 1927; 1937, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Audience listening to speaker on the stage in Burlington City Hall auditorium which is decorated with American flags one of which is hung from the balcony
Title: Burlington High School - Auditorium
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior photo of the gymnasium / auditorium looking to the stage at the old Burlington High School (currently Edmunds Elementary School), Burlington, Vermont. Date may be 1951 when it was newly constructed.
Title: Burlington High School - Auditorium
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View from the stage in the gymnasium / auditorium at the old Burlington High School (currently Edmunds Elementary School) located at corner of Main and South Union Streets. Seen here with chairs set up and piano. Date may be 1951 when it was newly constructed.
Title: Burlington High School - Auditorium
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View from the stage in the gymnasium / auditorium at the old Burlington High School (currently Edmunds Elementary School) located at Main and South Union Streets. Seen here with chairs set up. Date may be 1951 when it was newly constructed.
Title: Burlington High School - Auditorium
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View from the balcony looking toward the stage in the gymnasium / auditorium at the old Burlington High School (currently Edmunds Elementary School) located at corner of Main and South Union Streets. Date may be 1951 when it was newly constructed.
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