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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- Young men [251]
- Young women [155]
- Portrait photography [102]
- University of Vermont [70]
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- Confirmation Catholic Church [18]
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Title: UVM - Fraternities - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Brothers of an as yet unidentified fraternity. Dated 1953. Photo #6.
Title: UVM - Fraternities - Unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1953
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Brothers of an as yet unidentified fraternity. Dated 1953. Photo #7.
Title: UVM - Jazz Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Jazz band at the University of Vermont, usually known as "The Catamounts." Ensemble consists of piano, bass, and drums; trumpets, trombone, and saxophones; and a quartet of singers. Room may be in the current Philosophy Dept. building on So. Williams St., which used to house the Music department until the early 1970s. Dated 1947. Photo #3.
Title: UVM - Jazz Band
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Jazz band at the University of Vermont, usually known as "The Catamounts." Ensemble consists of piano, bass, and drums; trumpets, trombone, and saxophones; and a quartet of singers. Room may be in the current Philosophy Dept. building on So. Williams St., which used to house the Music department until the early 1970s. Dated 1947. Photo #2.
Title: UVM - ROTC : Ethan Allen Rifles
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Members of Ethan Allen Rifles were ROTC students at UVM. According to the 1953 Ariel (UVM yearbook), in which this photo appears (p.100), two major objectives of the group were to organize an annual military ball and provide a drill platoon at Federal Inspection. Dated 1951. Photo #79.
Title: UVM Botany Dept.
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Group of young men, including an African-American, possibly UVM students and members of a fraternity, dressed in comic "hayseed" attire and carrying scythes and pitchforks. Housing in background suggests campus setting. Horse-drawn farm implement. Warm and sunny day; occasion unknown.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
UVM students (some Class of 1932?) in front of the Billings Library.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Young women and men, very likely college students, assembled in front of the Billings Library at UVM. Group type unknown but possibly a choral group or other student club.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A group of young men and women assemble for a portrait with a view of University Row buildings in the background. Undated. 1920s?
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A large group of men and women in costume assemble in a gymnasium type room, possibly in Southwick Hall on Redstone campus. Crepe paper streamers festoon from the ceiling. A group of musicians are seen on a stage in the background.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
UVM students in academic regalia. Occasion or year unknown. Taken in front of the Billings Library.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
UVM graduates in academic regalia. Site and date unknown. Photo #2. Handwriting 65 cents at bottom margin.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
UVM graduates in academic regalia. Site and date unknown. Photo #1. See also mcalA18F11i11.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Group portrait of class of 1935? All men except for one woman. All are numbered except the woman. Taken outside on steps of John Dewey Hall (College of Medicine sign to the far right).
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Graduating group portrait of UVM class of 1956 with Dean George Wolf assembled in Hall A of John Dewey Hall. Photo #2.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
8 men in front of the former gymnasium (built 1901), now the Royall Tyler Theatre, which has a restored entrance way but the same arabesque detail on both sides. Athletes seem to be runners. Photo #9.
Title: UVM Groups
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Group portrait of young men and women, very likely UVM students, assembled before a replica of Old Mill. Very likely a student honor society. However, group identity, the event, date of the photo, and the site are unknown.
Title: Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Bride Frederica Webb Gamble in her gown on her wedding day with her husband.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dr. Carl McMahon and Mildred Brown, a young bride and groom pose for a portrait in their wedding outfits outside in summertime backyard. She wears a knee length dress with very long veil train. Names, location and date unknown. See wedding party in mcalA19F04i30
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A wedding couple pose beneath a leaf covered arch with a tissue paper folding bell hanging from above.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a young bride and groom. She wears a full length gown with a tulle veil surrounding her. She holds a bouquet of roses.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photo of a young bride and groom. She wears a full length gown with a tulle veil surrounding her. She holds a bouquet of roses.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A young bride and groom pose for a portrait in their wedding attire.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A young bride and groom pose in their wedding attire in front of a large American flag hung on the wall behind.
Title: Weddings
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A young bride and groom prepare to cut their wedding cake.
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