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.) [79]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [27]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [15]
- Colchester (Vt.) [5]
- Champlain, Lake [3]
- South Burlington (Vt.) [2]
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- image [122]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [122]
- photographs [122]
Topic(s)
- Nuns [122]
- Portrait photography [60]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [29]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [23]
- Priests [20]
- College students [12]
- High school students [12]
- Nurses [10]
- Buildings [8]
- Cathedral High School (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Students [8]
- Classrooms [7]
- High school buildings [7]
- Interior architecture [7]
- School children [7]
- Camps [6]
- Fanny Allen Hospital [5]
- Men [5]
- St. Joseph School (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Church buildings [4]
- University of Vermont [4]
- Buses [3]
- Camping [3]
- Children [3]
- Choruses [3]
- DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Middle school students [3]
- Offices [3]
- Young women [3]
- Boats and boating [2]
- Canoes and canoeing [2]
- Cathedral Grammar School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Chapels [2]
- Choirs (Music) [2]
- First communion [2]
- High school students Dramatic production [2]
- High school teachers [2]
- Saint John Vianney Parish (South Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Worship programs [2]
- Basketball [1]
- Christ the King School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Employees [1]
- Gardens [1]
- Gymnasiums [1]
- High school athletes [1]
- Parades [1]
- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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Topic: ("Nuns")
Genre: ("photographs")
Title: Camp Marycrest - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 group photo of Marycrest camp staff and nuns on the steps of the main building. On the porch in the background are mail box slots.
Title: Camp Marycrest - Staff
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1948 group photo of Marycrest staff, nuns and priest. Photo #30.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 Cathedral Grammar School music class. Students stand in a very narrow classroom filled with desks. A nun stands behind them. Photo #8.
![Thumbnail: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/mcallister/mcalB05F20i08-thumb.jpg)
Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-01
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of a Cathedral Grammar School music class. A nun plays the piano in the front of the narrow classroom filled with nearly 40 students as they sit at their desks holding music books. Photo #7.
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Title: Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photo of a dormitory like room. A nun fixes the hair on one child, other children busy themselves with duties. Beds line the walls with a toy carefully placed on each. Could this be St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont? Photo #4.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students with one nun standing in the back. They are gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #3.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1948-1949
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students with a priest and a nun gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #6.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 group photo of Cathedral High School students and two nuns seated around a table. Probably a school activity group taken for the year book. Photo #20.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 photo of a small group of Cathedral High School students standing and seated at a table with two nuns. Probably a school club and photo taken for the school year book.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of students, priests and nuns standing outside on the steps of the Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont for a class picture.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of students, priests and nuns standing outside on the steps of the Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont for a class picture.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of students, priests and nuns standing outside on the steps of the Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont for a class picture.
Title: Cathedral High School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1959
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1959 photo of students, priests and nuns standing outside on the steps of the Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont for a class picture.
Title: Cathedral High School - Faculty
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A portrait of the faculty of Cathedral High School taken at the Pearl Street entrance to the school. The photograph is dated summer 1937. Photo #1.
Title: Cathedral High School, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Formal photo of students assembled in front of the main entrance to the Cathedral High School. Girls are grouped on the left. The boys are grouped on the right. Nuns and priests are in the back row. Undated.
Title: Christ the King School
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
An undated photograph of a nun leading a religion class at Christ the King School.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 portrait photo of nurse graduates gathered with three nuns. Graduates each wear a corsage and hold diploma.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945 portrait photo of nurse graduates gathered with three nuns. Graduates each wear a corsage and hold diploma. Photo #4.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital - Nurses
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 portrait photo of nurse graduates gathered inside. Each holds a diploma. A nun sits center. Photo #1.
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital: School of Nurses Training - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
This photo appears in the Burlington Free Press of June 7, 1944 (one day after D-Day). In the front row (l.-r.) are: Marjorie Malbourne, Gertrude Valyou, Sr. Bisson (Superintendent of Nurses, Fanny Allen Hospital), Lorraine Barber, Lorraine Dion. Back row (l.-r.): Barbara McNeil, Bernadette Daly, Doritt Rylant, Alfreda Moreau, Ruby Story, Kathleen McNally, and Margaret Rice. Photo #2?
Title: Fanny Allen Hospital: School of Nurses Training - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
This photo appears in the Burlington Free Press of June 7, 1944 (one day after D-Day). In the front row (l.-r.) are: Marjorie Malbourne, Gertrude Valyou, Sr. Bisson (Superintendent of Nurses, Fanny Allen Hospital), Lorraine Barber, Lorraine Dion. Back row (l.-r.): Barbara McNeil, Bernadette Daly, Doritt Rylant, Alfreda Moreau, Ruby Story, Kathleen McNally, and Margaret Rice. Photo #1.
Title: Mount St. Mary's
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1954; 1954
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1954 photo of Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's in Burlington.
Title: Mount St. Mary's
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Nuns from the private Catholic girls' school Mount St. Mary's are seen on visitation of the sick (brochure picture). Circa 1954-1957.
Title: Mount St. Mary's
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Nuns of Mount St. Mary's assemble for a formal portrait. A crucifix hangs on the wall behind them and an altar is seen in front. Circa 1954-1957.
Title: Mount St. Mary's - Student Activities
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Students of Mount St. Mary's assemble for a group photo with a nun on the front steps of the school. School was located on Mansfield Ave in Burlington, Vermont. Circa 1954-1957.
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