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.) [81]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [12]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [5]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [4]
- Camp MacArthur (Vt.) [3]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [3]
- Waitsfield (Vt.) [3]
- Ethan Allen Firing Range (Vt.) [2]
- Winooski (Vt.) [2]
- Johnson (Vt.) [1]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [110]
- photographs [110]
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- Trucks [127]
- Street photography [33]
- Construction projects [30]
- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [29]
- Business [23]
- Employees [8]
- Snowblowers [8]
- Men [6]
- Service stations [6]
- Burlington International Airport [5]
- Camping [5]
- Animals [4]
- Automobiles [4]
- Landscape photography [4]
- Portrait photography [4]
- Steamboats [4]
- Ticonderoga (Steamship) [4]
- Girls [3]
- Stores, Retail [3]
- Tractors [3]
- Urban parks [3]
- Advertising [2]
- Architectural photography [2]
- Banners [2]
- Boys [2]
- Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- High school students [2]
- Housing [2]
- Parades [2]
- Railroad tracks [2]
- Refuse and refuse disposal [2]
- Traffic accidents [2]
- University of Vermont [2]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [2]
- Waste disposal sites [2]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [2]
- Airplanes [1]
- Billboards [1]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [1]
- Church buildings [1]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
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- Dwellings [1]
- Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- G.S. Blodgett Corporation [1]
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- Horses [1]
- Hospitals [1]
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- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Military weapons [1]
- Shelburne Museum [1]
- Soldiers [1]
- Street-railroad tracks [1]
- Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Theaters [1]
- Tractors Equipment and supplies [1]
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- Veterans [1]
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Topic: ("Trucks")
Title: Military Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1937 close up photo of a military vehicle showing an attached metal container and a disassembled pick axe strapped to the running board.
Title: Military Equipment
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1937 close up photo of the side of a military vehicle identified as 7th F. A. Btry E. 1 showing attached metal container and an axe. Field Artillery
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-11-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 22, 1938. Workmen operate steam rollers, dump trucks and other equipment as they construct an urban park.
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-11-22
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 22, 1938. Crew work on constructing an urban park. Seen is a truck with barrels and hose. Also a steam roller.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936; 1935-1936
1935 / 1936 winter photo of a group of well-dressed, influential men standing in front of an airplane, presumably at Burlington Int'l 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 a crate with sign "Live Dog". Occasion and purpose of photo unknown.
Title: Portraits - Unidentified Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1935-1936; 1935-1936
Over exposed 1935 / 1936 winter photo of a group of well-dressed, influential men standing in front of an airplane, presumably at Burlington Int'l 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 lays on a crate with sign "Live Dog". Occasion and purpose of photo unknown.
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 stand outside in the snow. May be members of a work crew doing a city street project. A truck can be seen in the background above the men.
Title: Road Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-09-10
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
September 10, 1928. Workmen, bags of cement, trucks, machinery and road side billboards all are seen at this road construction site. On the photo's left side is seen strung lines to plumb the straight edge of the road side.
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: Sewer Projects
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1932-03-09
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
March 9, 1932. Members of a crew work with shovels on a timber platform within a wooden frame. Lumber is seen laying on the ground to the left. Trucks and other equipment are in the area.
Title: Sewer Projects
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1939-11-24
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 24, 1939. A dump truck deposits its load at a sewer project site as crew members work nearby. Other trucks and machinery seen.
Title: Shelburne Museum - Construction
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951-1952; 1951-1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 / 1952 view of open acres of land belonging to the Shelburne Museum. Plumbs of earth are seen as the land is worked.
Title: Stores - People's Department Store (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952; 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
25 Church Street : Rear entrance to People's Dept. store, with truck in foreground.
Title: Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947; 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Including T.S. Peck Insurance Agency 154 College Street : Truck with Sherwin Williams business info parked in front of store at 152 College. (SW may have moved recently to 152 without having changed the address on the truck.)
Title: Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1955-01-19
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
January 19, 1955. Some of the men and equipment on site needed to prepare the terrain for the transport of the steamship Ticonderoga to the Shelburne Museum. The engineering firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott were contracted to undertake the move. They subcontracted with W. B. Hill Co. of Tilton, New Hampshire to oversee the ship's overland trip. Photo 104.
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: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A young family poses in front of the steamship Ticonderoga during its overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. On the ship's side is the sign for W. B. Hill Company who oversaw the boat's trek. Photo undated but probably February 1955.
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. A family poses in front of the steamship Ticonderoga during its overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. On the ship's side is the sign for W. B. Hill Company who oversaw the boat's trek.
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.
Title: UVM - Housing (Temporary)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1946-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Temporary housing units near main campus, with a few parked cars and trucks. These dwellings preceded the construction of the Chittenden-Buckham-Wills dormitories and very likely accommodated GI's coming to UVM as part of the "GI Bill." Dated 1946 / 1947.
Title: UVM - Housing (Temporary)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Foundations of new "shoebox" dormitories--Chittenden, Buckham, and Wills Halls in the foreground, with soon-to-be removed temporary housing beyond the construction area. Older university buildings (Billings Library, Ira Allen Chapel, etc.) are on the horizon. Dated 1947.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1951 photo of a large industrial container truck of Vermont Structural Steel.
Title: Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of Vermont Structural Steel Co. building with tractor trailer loaded with steel beam and parked along railroad tracks.
Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 or 1948 photo of members of the VFW Squirrel Club, assembled on and around a flat-bed truck, either before or after a parade in Burlington. Location is outside of the First Unitarian Universalist Society church at 152 Pearl Street (head of Church Street Marketplace), Burlington, Vt. They are part of the Military Order of the Cootie (MOC), an organization within VFW that seeks to have fun while also visiting the sick and disabled in veterans hospitals and elsewhere. The MOC motto is displayed on the side of the truck: "Keep 'Em Smiling in Beds of White."
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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