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.) [17]
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- black-and-white photographs [23]
- photographs [23]
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- Business [47]
- Men [47]
- Employees [24]
- Portrait photography [14]
- Women [14]
- Boys [3]
- Advertising [2]
- Airplanes [2]
- Animals [2]
- Architectural photography [2]
- Beauty operators [2]
- Burlington International Airport [2]
- Convenience stores [2]
- Exhibit booths [2]
- Exhibitions [2]
- Service stations [2]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Stores, Retail [2]
- Cows [1]
- Offices [1]
- Railroad trains [1]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [1]
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Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 photo of a meeting of men and women affiliated with the Nash bed company. (See also mcalB15F22i07.) Identity of persons, venue, occasion unknown.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948; 1948
1948 photo of the same group in maclB15F23i03 but a different view showing a group of 9 men and women. Posters on the wall may support the following scenario: General Home Equipment may be an in-home sales enterprise similar to Amway, and the people at the head of the table (the "pilots" referred to int the poster) may be the top salespeople in their region. (The airplane imagery may allude to the Berlin Airlift, which started in June, 1948.) The poster on the right would certainly be appropriate for a sales campaign involving numerous independent salespeople.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948; 1948
1948 photo of a group of men and women involved with General Home Equipment (see mcalB15F23i04). Location and occasion are unknown.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
1951 group of men gathered near tables in a public commercial room with display material set up advertising MoPar Micronic Oil Filters. Photo #2.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951; 1951
1951 group of men gathered near tables in a public commercial room with display material set up advertising MoPar Micronic Oil Filters. Photo #1.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
1935 / 1936 winter photo of a group of well-dressed, influential men standing in front of an airplane, presumably at Burlington Airport. On the left is a delivery truck owned by Railway Express Agency, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington. The City Directory lists Herbert E. Fitch as agent. Also on the left: a boy with his dog that sits on top of crate with sign "Live Dog". Occasion and purpose of photo unknown. (See also mcalB15F12i13.)
Title: Portraits, groups, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Six men stop their work and stand next to two butchered cows (steers?) in a meat processing plant. Undated.
Title: Scrap Metal Collection
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 - Scrap Metal Collection. Seen is a huge dumpster full of metal cans and other scrap. Two men have shovels and stand in a chute. Two other men stand nearby. Chute leads down into a building.
Title: Scrap Metal Collection
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 - Scrap Metal Collection - A man with a power shovel has a scoopful of scrap metal near a partially filled truck. Initials on the truck's door read, "C.R. Co." Another man stands in the truck bed with shovel, two others look on.
Title: Scrap Metal Collection
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 - Scrap Metal Collection. Seen is a huge dumpster full of metal cans and other scrap. Two men have shovels and stand in a chute. Two other men stand nearby. Chute leads down into a building.
Title: Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960-1961; 1960-1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1960/1961. Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. Three women get their hair washed in a beauty salon or cosmetology school. Two the beauticians are men. Photo #8. See also mcalA15F06i14
Title: Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960-1961; 1960-1961
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1960/1961. Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. Six students of a local beauty salon or cosmetology school gather for a group photo.
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. Similar to mcalB18F20i03, this photo shows 2 additional men, and all are wearing hats. Building is Burlington Grocery Co., 47-49 Maple St., Burlington, Vt.
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: 1937; 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1937. A duplicate of mcalB18F20i06, this photo shows 10 men, all administrators and employees of Burlington Grocery Co., 47-49 Maple St., Burlington, Vt.
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 with, probably, owner and staff in doorway. Name of store unfortunately unreadable because of glare but could be Alarie's or Burns's.
Title: Stores - Interiors - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Bookstore or magazine shop (see mcalB18F29i11). Employees and a customer (?) looking at the Saturday Evening Post (edition dated 2 Oct., 1943). Selection seems to have mostly popular and pulp fiction titles.
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 the administrative office at Vt. Structural Steel. Three employees are present but difficult to see because of the under exposure and blurred areas.
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 a shop at Vt. Structural Steel, with two employees moving a sheet of steel through a machine.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
Title: War Bond Campaign
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
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