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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Title: UVM Sororities - Kappa Alpha Theta
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta in their chapter house at 215 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt. (The house was built in 1900 for lawyer Charles T. Barney and later owned by the Catholic diocese as a residence for Bishop Joseph J. Rice.) Kappa Alpha Theta was the first sorority to have a chapter at UVM (1881).
Title: UVM Sororities - Kappa Alpha Theta
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta in their chapter house at 215 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt. (The house was built in 1900 for lawyer Charles T. Barney and later owned by the Catholic diocese as a residence for Bishop Joseph J. Rice.) Kappa Alpha Theta was the first sorority to have a chapter at UVM (1881).
Title: UVM Sororities - Kappa Alpha Theta
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta in their chapter house at 215 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt. (The house was built in 1900 for lawyer Charles T. Barney and later owned by the Catholic diocese as a residence for Bishop Joseph J. Rice.) Kappa Alpha Theta was the first sorority to have a chapter at UVM (1881).
Title: UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority, whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. This photo was probably taken in their chapter house at 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.
Title: UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority, whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. This photo was probably taken in their chapter house at 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.
Title: UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority, whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. This photo was probably taken in their chapter house at 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.
Title: UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority (chapter house: 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.), whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. A similar photo appears in the 1953 Ariel, the UVM student yearbook, on p.138.
Title: UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority (chapter house: 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.), whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. A similar photo appears in the 1953 Ariel, the UVM student yearbook, on p.138.
Title: UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority (chapter house: 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.), whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. This photo appears in the 1953 Ariel, the UVM student yearbook, on p.138.
Title: UVM Sororities - Sigma Gamma
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Sigma Gamma sorority, which may have been active without owning a chapter house on or near campus. A photo similar to this one appears in the 1953 Ariel, the UVM student yearbook, on p.140.
Title: UVM Sororities - Sigma Gamma
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Sigma Gamma sorority, which may have been active without owning a chapter house on or near campus.
Title: UVM Sororities - Sigma Gamma
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of Sigma Gamma sorority, which may have been active without owning a chapter house on or near campus.
Title: UVM Sororities - Southwick Memorial Hall (Construction)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1960
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Southwick Hall on UVM's Redstone Campus, current home of the Music Department but originally built to accommodate women's activities. Built in 1935 in memory of Mable Louise Southwick, UVM '05, this neo-Federal style, two-story building was funded in part by Mable's parents and the federal Public Works Administration. If this photo was taken in 1960, the scaffolding was for renovation, not construction.
Title: UVM Sororities - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1957
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of an as yet unidentified sorority.
Title: UVM Sororities - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Sisters of an as yet unidentified sorority.
Title: University of Vermont R.O.T.C. Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1930
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1930 photo of the University of Vermont R.O.T.C. Infantry Battalion Band standing in front of the Ira Allen Chapel on the UVM campus. Joseph F. Lechnyr (d. 1959), longtime director of music ensembles in Burlington and Middlebury, is conductor. Mc2 seen in lower right corner indicating the photographer's numbering system. Photo was also numbered No.2 and available for sale for 50 cents.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 wedding portrait of bride (in wedding gown) and groom outside Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. He is in military uniform. Photo #4.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of wedding party outside Ira Allen Chapel on University of Vermont campus, Burlington, Vt. Photo #5.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of wedding party outside Ira Allen Chapel on University of Vermont campus, Burlington, Vt. Photo #2.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of wedding party outside Ira Allen Chapel on University of Vermont campus, Burlington, Vt. Photo #1.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of wedding party outside Ira Allen Chapel on University of Vermont campus, Burlington, Vt. Photo #3.
Title: William E. Brown - Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait photo of William E. Brown, Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952) as he sits at his desk.
Title: William E. Brown - Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947-1948
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait photo of William E. Brown, Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952) as he sits at his desk.
Title: William E. Brown - Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait photo of William E. Brown, Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952) as he sits at his desk.
Title: William E. Brown - Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1952
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait photo of William E. Brown, Dean College of Medicine (1945-1952) as he sits at his desk.
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