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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- black-and-white photographs [78]
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- Urban parks [83]
- Veterans [22]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [20]
- Children [16]
- Construction projects [15]
- United StatesWork Projects Administration. [9]
- Young women [9]
- Flag raising and lowering [8]
- Employees [7]
- Women veterans [7]
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- Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets [5]
- City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Sewage disposal [5]
- Automobiles [4]
- Buildings [4]
- Football [4]
- High school athletes [4]
- Worship programs [4]
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- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
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- Rice Memorial High School (Burlington, Vt.) [2]
- Street photography [2]
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Topic: ("Urban parks")
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The entrance to Ethan Allen Park before the widening project, looking from inside the park towards North Avenue.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937-11-20
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
View of new stone masonry lookout house on the pinnacle at Ethan Allen Park while under construction.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
The entrance to Ethan Allen Park prior to the 1937 W.P.A. project.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph dated November 20, 1937. original caption reads: W.P.A. 65-12-344. A view of the completed entrance to Ethan Allen Park after it had been widened to twenty-six (26) feet.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Undated photograph of the completed entrance to Ethan Allen Park.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Original caption reads: A section of Ethan Allen Park drive where a considerable amount of rock had to be blasted out of the roadway before constructing the pavement.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Original caption reads: This view shows Ethan Allen Park drive as seen from the pinnacle. This drive is being constructed with 8" telford stone sub base, 4 inches of stabilized sand and stone base and 1 1/4 inch of armor coat wearing surface covered with a thin layer of washed sand. There is a little over one mile of this type of pavement sixteen feet in width which has been constructed under the WPA project.
Title: Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1937
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Original caption reads: This is a view of the building built under WPA Project No. 65-12-344 at Ethan Allen Park to be used as a combination tool house and toilet for ladies and gentlemen. Modern plumbing has been installed in the toilets with a large cesspool for sewage disposal which can later be connected with the proposed sewer to be built on Bradley Road. This building is erected near the picnic grounds in the Pine Grove.
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Roosevelt Park out near current location of Boys and Girls Club in Burlington.
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1928-11-26
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Date on back of photo November 26, 1928. Baseball stand at South Park (steel and concrete construction). Steel erected by Eastern Bridge and Structural Co. Concrete (?). Span Roof constructed by the Hathorn Co.
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-11-14
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 14, 1938. Work crew smooth out embankment during construction of an urban park.
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-07-27
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 27, 1938. Construction of an urban park. Work crew seen in the distance.
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: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Roosevelt Park near the current location of the Boys and Girls Club in Burlington, Vermont.
Title: Parks
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
South Park? and its baseball stand? Construction of the stand in progress. Undated but may be 1920s or 30s.
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: Parks (4X5)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1938-11-14
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
November 14, 1938. A workman grates the earth with a tractor. Houses line the area. Other workmen seen in the distance.
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
T.S. Peck Insurance Agency 154 College Street : Several cars parked in front of three College St. businesses: Sherwin-Williams Paints (152), T.S. Peck, and Agel Corman furniture. Photo is taken from City Hall park.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1945. Trinity College students gathered at an outdoor ceremony. In the foreground, students stand in cross-shaped formation, with several, dressed in white, forming an inner cross. Students in the background form a circle with a short stem, the purpose of which may be to form a globe with a cross at its top, an ancient Christian symbol of sovereignty. American flag seen in lower right. Photo #1.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944. Outdoor gathering of Trinity College students on a sunny day, so it may be a graduation event, but the exact details are unknown. Students in the foreground seem to form a cross, while others stand in a circle before joining a single line. This may be an attempt to form a clover--a symbol of the Holy Trinity--or a globe at the base of a cross, an ancient Christian symbol of sovereignty. American flag seen in lower right corner.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944. Trinity College students gathered at an outdoor ceremony. In the foreground, students stand in cross-shaped formation, with several, dressed in white, forming an inner cross. Students in the background are forming either a clover leaf--symbolic of the Holy Trinity--or a circle (or globe) at the base of the cross, an ancient Christian symbol of sovereignty. Photo #1.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944. Trinity College students gathered at an outdoor ceremony. In the foreground, students stand in cross-shaped formation, with several, dressed in white, forming an inner cross. Students in the background are forming either a clover leaf--symbolic of the Holy Trinity--or a circle (or globe) at the base of the cross, an ancient Christian symbol of sovereignty. Photo #2?
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944. Trinity College students gathered at an outdoor ceremony. In the foreground, students stand in cross-shaped formation, with several, dressed in white, forming an inner cross. Students in the background are forming either a clover leaf--symbolic of the Holy Trinity--or a circle (or globe) at the base of the cross, an ancient Christian symbol of sovereignty. Photo #5.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944. Trinity College students gathered at an outdoor ceremony. In the foreground, students stand in cross-shaped formation, with several, dressed in white, forming an inner cross. Students in the background are forming either a clover leaf--symbolic of the Holy Trinity--or a circle (or globe) at the base of the cross, an ancient Christian symbol of sovereignty. Photo #3.
Title: Trinity College - Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944. Trinity College students process toward venue of ceremony depicted in mcalB19F10i01-i07 (graduation? May Day festival?). Photo #6.
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