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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Creator(s)
Place(s)
- Champlain, Lake [61]
- Burlington (Vt.) [43]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [21]
- Mallets Bay (Vt.) [10]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [5]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [4]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [1]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [1]
- Winooski (Vt.) [1]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [1]
Format(s)
- image [135]
Genre(s)
- black-and-white photographs [135]
- photographs [135]
Topic(s)
- Boats and boating [135]
- Ships [44]
- Warships [40]
- Shelburne Shipyard, Inc [29]
- Ferries [13]
- Auditoriums [8]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [8]
- Champlain Transportation Company [8]
- Landscape photography [8]
- Business [7]
- Construction projects [6]
- Boys [5]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [5]
- Camping [5]
- Swimming [5]
- Machinery [4]
- Exhibit booths [3]
- Men [3]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [2]
- Interior architecture [2]
- Nuns [2]
- Portrait photography [2]
- Stores, Retail [2]
- Women [2]
- Advertising [1]
- Automobiles [1]
- Bridges [1]
- Children [1]
- Employees [1]
- Exhibitions [1]
- Girls [1]
- Railroad tracks [1]
- Trailers [1]
- Wreckers (Vehicles) [1]
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Title: Art - Hy Hintermeister
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1947 photo of a photo by Hy Hintermeister. It is entitled "A Good Day for It" and shows a woman seated in a rowboat positioned next to the shore of a lake or pond fishing with a man standing in the boat next to her. He has his fishing pole and fish they have caught.
Title: Automobile Wrecks & Wreckers
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Photograph of a Hope & Son wrecker moving a small Pensacola motor boat.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Small ferry or pleasure craft standing inside the breakwater of a lake with three men seen standing on deck. Canopy type covering provides cover for the back half of the boat and the pilot house. Lettering on the side of the bow.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Seen here the stern of a ship with its twin propellers. Built by Donovan Construction Company of St. Paul, Minnesota at the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Vt. Company locally called Donovan Contracting. A group of men standing around and beneath the stern that is up on timber and metal supports. Numbers arranged vertically partially visible on the stern. Undated but may be 1940s. See also mcalA01F11i17 and mcalA10F07i25.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A four top sail schooner standing in water decorated with signal flags strung from the bow across the top of the masts and down to the stern. Sails are furls and people with flags standing on the bow and all along the side.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Distant view of the "Steam Tug Victor" on Lake Champlain. Part of caption on the photo reads "Owned by J. E. Cashman, loaded with supplies for F. H. Wells leaving Burlington Vt. for Stave Island, March 6, 1914". Names of four men also listed including Capt. John Fleury.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
From glass negative. Distant view of the "Steam Tug Victor" on Lake Champlain. Part of caption on the photo reads "Owned by J. E. Cashman, loaded with supplies for F. H. Wells leaving Burlington Vt. for Stave Island, March 6, 1914" or 1919. Names of four men also listed including Capt. John Fleury. See mcalA08F11i01 and mcalA01F11i04 for similar photo.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 photo of several yachts or pleasure boats in dry dock lined up in an open shed next to an unpaved access road. Shadow of person (possibly the photographer) in the extreme lower left. Photo #1.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 photo of side view of two yachts or pleasure boats in dry dock lined up in an open shed next to an unpaved access road. Photo #5. See also mcalB07F10i01
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
A boat, possibly wooden, mounted on a trailer placed in an open grassy meadow with a man standing next to the boat. Lettering on the side of the bow, Skee or Sree?
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior photo of new outboard pleasure crafts with nautical supplies such as life jackets and life preservers mounted on the wall behind the boats. Possibly a boat show set in a gymnasium. The word "Century" lettered on the side of one of the boats.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Interior photo with new outboard motor, row boats and nautical equipment displayed. Banners hung in the dome shape tent-like structure state Evinrude sale. Undated but may be 1950s.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dome shaped tent-like temporary structure next to an open shed with yachts or pleasure craft on display near an access road. Shadow of a person (possibly the photographer) seen at the bottom right.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 interior photo of new outboard motor, row boats and nautical equipment on display at end of season Fall sale. Banners hung in the dome shaped tent-like structure state "Evinrude sale", "America's No. 1 ALL-Family Sport is Lighter ... with America's No. 1 Boat Trailer", "Free Winter Storage if you buy now!" See also mcalB07F10i05.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1958 photo of dome shaped tent-like structure with banner strung over the entrance. Possibly the same structure for the Evinrude sale of outboard and motor boats. Photo #4. See also mcalB07F10i10.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Dome shaped tent-like structure near an unpaved access road next to an open sided shed with motor boats on display. At center bottom a shadow of a person (possibly the photographer). Photo #2. See also mcalB07F10i07.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Large boat up on wooden supports showing its two large propellers and rutters. Numbers arranged vertically on the stern (7, ?, 5)
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1919, undated; 1919, undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Stern of a twin propelled ship. Built by the Donovan Construction Company of St. Paul, Minn. at the Shelburne Shipyard. Company locally called Donovan Contracting. See also mcalA01F11i02 and mcalA10F07i25.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1946
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944/1945 Tug boat Pocahontas in dry dock most likely at Shelburne Shipyard. To the right of her is a military vessel with ID code of P-239. Late Fall - January
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944/1945 Six men inspect the underside of a huge boat most likely dry docked at Shelburne Shipyard.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945; 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 photo of a large boat possibly under construction at the Shelburne Shipyard. View from the ground looking up the side of the ship.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 photo of top deck of a huge boat with a view of Lake Champlain beyond. Location most likely Shelburne Shipyard.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 photo of three boats under construction most likely at the Shelburne Shipyard. Members of the work crew stand on board.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 view of the inside lower level of a large boat. A stairway leads to top deck.
Title: Boats
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944-1945 view of the inside lower level of a large boat. A stairway leads to top deck.
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