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.) [25]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [24]
- Champlain, Lake [1]
- Essex Junction (Vt.) [1]
- Ethan Allen Firing Range (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [49]
- photographs [49]
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- Railroad tracks [60]
- Steamboats [24]
- Ticonderoga (Steamship) [23]
- Buildings [11]
- Landscape photography [8]
- Champlain Transportation Company [5]
- Construction workers [5]
- Men [5]
- Waste disposal sites [5]
- Machinery [4]
- Women [4]
- Business [3]
- Architectural photography [2]
- Automobiles [2]
- Portrait photography [2]
- Trucks [2]
- Animals [1]
- Boats and boating [1]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Church buildings [1]
- Horses [1]
- Interior architecture [1]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [1]
- Soldiers [1]
- St. Anthony Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- United StatesPublic Works Administration. [1]
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Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
1945 photo of a group of men and women ready to board a train. Most passengers have tags attached to their clothing. Train station very likely in Essex Junction, Vt. A few cars are parked on the left. A Western Union sign can be seen in the distance, left.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 (perhaps Spring) photo of a group of well-dressed, influential looking men and women gathered at a train station. Identity of group or attendees, venue, occasion unknown.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 (perhaps Spring) photo of a group of well-dressed, influential looking men and women gathered at a train station. Identity of group or attendees, venue, occasion unknown.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 (perhaps Spring) photo of a group of well-dressed, influential looking men and women gathered at a train station. Identity of group or attendees, venue, occasion unknown.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947; 1947
1947 photo of 4 men at the train station (seen in mcalB15F21i05). Identity of persons, venue, and occasion unknown.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 5, 1955. Wooden timbers stretch across between the double railroad tracks upon which the steamship Ticonderoga inches its way overland to its final resting place, the Shelburne Museum. The tracks were laid in 300 foot sections in front of the vessel. Crewmen work the tracks to keep the ship online. The move was made in the winter so the frozen ground could support the rails and the immense weight. Photo 124.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 26, 1955. The bow of the steamship Ticonderoga is seen here. The entire ship is seated and welded to a wheeled cradle upon which the ship will be moved along the double railroad tracks laid before it. The cradle had been submerged in a man made basin that was flooded, the boat positioned over the cradle and then the basin drained allowing the boat to come to rest on the cradle. Photo 107.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-28
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 28, 1955. Double railroad tracks are laid out in front of the Ticonderoga steamship. Curves had to be accommodated along the terrain as it made its way to the Shelburne Museum and its final resting place. Photo 110.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 26, 1955. The bow of the steamship Ticonderoga, is seen here. The entire ship is seated and welded to a wheeled cradle upon which the ship will be moved along the double railroad tracks laid before it. The cradle had been submerged in a man made basin that was flooded, the boat positioned over the cradle and then the basin drained allowing the boat to come to rest on the cradle. Photo 106.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 26, 1955. The steamboat Ticonderoga sits upon its wheeled cradle on double railroad tracts. The lower half of her paddlewheels have been temporarily removed. Photo 108.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-29
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 29, 1955. Two days before the steamship Ticonderoga starts is 9,250 feet overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. Double railroad tracks have been laid and she will inch her way over them progressing no more than 250 feet a day. Photo 111.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-31
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 31, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga begins its 9,250 foot overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. The ship has been welded to its wheeled cradle. The railroad tracks have been laid in front of her and she will make a 150 foot advance on this first day. Photo 115.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 9, 1955. A truck belonging to the W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire is seen between the double railroad tracks in front of the steamship Ticonderoga. The company was subcontracted by Merritt-Chapman & Scott to oversee the boat's overland journey from Shelburne Bay to the Shelburne Museum. Photo 127.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 5, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga (built in 1906), slowly inches its way across a frozen field on its way to a permanent site, the Shelburne Museum. The boat is welded to its cradle pulled by winches. Railroad tracks are laid in sections of 300 ahead of the vessel. Progress per day is never more than 250 feet. Photo 120.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 5, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga inches her way along double railroad tracks. Metal rods and wooden planks span the center between the two tracks. Men of W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire attend the rails helping to ensure that the boat safely navigates its 2 mile trip overland to the Shelburne Museum.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 18, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga navigates a curve on its overland route from Shelburne Bay to the Shelburne Museum.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-18
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 18, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga travels overland during the winter months on double tracks laid in 300 foot sections in front of the paddle-boat. Photo A130.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-04-05
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
April 5, 1955. Steamship Ticonderoga meets the Rutland Railroad. The route taken to transport the boat overland crossed the railroad tracks. The northbound freight train waits as the ship inches its way across pulled by winches. By 5:22 pm the boat cleared the tracks. Photo 154.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 19, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga travels overland pulled by winches as it rides along double railroad tracks. On the left workman from the W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire work the rails while a family stands nearby on the right. Photo 136.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-02-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
February 19, 1955. Men work on the railroad tracks that the steamship Ticonderoga is traveling on. Photo 138.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-03-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 8, 1955. A helicopter flies over the steamship Ticonderoga as the paddle-boat makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversaw the boat's overland journey. Photo 146.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-03-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 8, 1955. A helicopter flies over the steamship Ticonderoga as the paddle-boat makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversaw the boat's overland journey. Photo 147.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-03-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 8, 1955. A helicopter flies over the steamship Ticonderoga as the paddle-boat makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversaw the boat's overland journey.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A helicopter flies over the steamship Ticonderoga as the paddle-boat makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversaw the boat's overland journey. Undated but probably March 1955.
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-03-08
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 8, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversees the boat's overland journey. The truck bears the company's signs as does the side of the paddle-boat. Photo 144.
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