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.) [22]
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- image [29]
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- black-and-white photographs [20]
- photographs [20]
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- Statues [29]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [13]
- Portrait photography [9]
- Church buildings [8]
- St. Joseph Co-Cathedral (Burlington, Vt.) [7]
- Interior architecture [3]
- Women [3]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Young women [2]
- Boys [1]
- Chapels [1]
- Classrooms [1]
- College graduates [1]
- Monuments [1]
- Musicians [1]
- University of Vermont [1]
- Worship programs [1]
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Title: Trinity College - Buildings & Interiors
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Corner of a chapel with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with drapery in the background and flowers. Banister pattern matches the one seen in mcalA18F05i23, so perhaps this is a corner in the same chapel.
Title: Trinity College - Graduation
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1956
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1956 Trinity College graduates, assembled on stairs in the shape of an "M," presumably for the Blessed Virgin Mary. Statue in the background is of Jesus displaying the Sacred Heart. Photo #27.
Title: UVM Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Created in 1921 and restored in 2000, "this bronze statue of UVM's founder, Ira Allen, was executed by sculptor Sherry Fry, a member of the National Academy of Design... James B. Wilbur, a wealthy businessman from Manchester, Vermont, who wrote the 1928 biography of Ira Allen, gave the statue to the University. The statue displaced the Lafayette statue which was relocated to the north side of the University Green, thus severing the logical connection between the original placement of the statue of Lafayette and Old Mill." (Source: Prof. William Lipke, UVM Dept. of Art. "Ira Allen, 1921" Art & Architecture at UVM. http://www.uvm.edu/~wlipke/artuvm/allen.php)
Title: Wells Statue at Gettysburg
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of statue of William Wells (1837-1892), Brevet Major General of the U.S. Vols. located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at the National Military Park, along South Confederate Avenue. A similar monument is also located in Burlington Vermont's Battery Park. "For gallant and meritorious services" March 13, 1865. Awarded the metal of honor for "most distinguished gallantry at Gettysburg" July 3, 1863. Native Vermonter, born in Waterbury, Vermont.
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