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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- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [7]
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- Women [163]
- Family [37]
- Buildings [32]
- Bowling [18]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [17]
- College students [16]
- Interior architecture [16]
- Priests [16]
- University of Vermont [16]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [15]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [14]
- Church buildings [13]
- Camp Holy Cross (Vt.) [9]
- Banners [7]
- Employees [7]
- Middlebury College [7]
- Radio broadcasters [7]
- Athletics [6]
- Camps [6]
- Choirs (Music) [6]
- Actors [5]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [5]
- Circus performers [5]
- Musical groups [5]
- Radio stations [5]
- Salvation Army [5]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Young men [5]
- Advertising [4]
- Cavalry [4]
- Chapels [4]
- Costume [4]
- Dwellings [4]
- Knights of Columbus [4]
- Landscape photography [4]
- Nuns [4]
- Boys [3]
- Camping [3]
- Girls [3]
- Infants [3]
- Marriage [3]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [3]
- Weddings [3]
- Young women [3]
- Airplanes [2]
- Animals [2]
- Brides [2]
- Burlington International Airport [2]
- Business [2]
- Champlain Transportation Company [2]
- Christmas greens [2]
- Construction projects [2]
- Department stores [2]
- Gymnasiums [2]
- House furnishings [2]
- Modern Woodmen of America [2]
- Restaurants [2]
- Street-railroad tracks [2]
- Students [2]
- Theaters [2]
- Women veterans [2]
- Auditoriums [1]
- Bands (Music) [1]
- Beauty operators [1]
- Bridegrooms [1]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cake [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Choruses [1]
- Classrooms [1]
- College teachers [1]
- Construction workers [1]
- Dolls [1]
- High school buildings [1]
- High school students [1]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Musicians [1]
- Offices [1]
- Rifle practice [1]
- Santa Claus [1]
- School children [1]
- Stores, Retail [1]
- Trailers [1]
- Trucks [1]
- Urban parks [1]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [1]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesLadies Auxiliary.Dept. of Vermont [1]
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