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.) [185]
- Grand Isle (Vt.) [34]
- Colchester (Vt.) [31]
- Camp Birchcliffe (Vt.) [19]
- Camp Marycrest (Vt.) [15]
- Winooski (Vt.) [9]
- Middlebury (Vt.) [8]
- Battery Park (Vt.) [5]
- Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.) [4]
- Montpelier (Vt.) [4]
- Essex Junction (Vt.) [3]
- Champlain, Lake [2]
- Kamp Kill Kare (Vt.) [2]
- North Hero (Vt. : Town) [2]
- St. Albans (Vt.) [2]
- Shelburne (Vt.) [1]
- Winooski River (Vt.) [1]
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- black-and-white photographs [547]
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- Men [461]
- Children [119]
- Family [111]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States [35]
- University of Vermont [33]
- Nurses [30]
- Girls [29]
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United StatesLadies Auxiliary.Dept. of Vermont [29]
- Priests [28]
- Dwellings [27]
- Nuns [24]
- Veterans [23]
- Employees [22]
- Camps [21]
- Church buildings [21]
- Young women [21]
- Business [20]
- Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.) [20]
- Fanny Allen Hospital [19]
- First Congregational Church (Burlington, Vt.) [19]
- Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.) [19]
- Camping [16]
- Circus performers [16]
- Boys [15]
- Offices [15]
- Banners [14]
- Christmas greens [14]
- Infants [14]
- Worship programs [14]
- Salvation Army [12]
- Urban parks [12]
- Santa Claus [11]
- College students [10]
- Costume [10]
- Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.) [10]
- Cake [9]
- Chapels [9]
- Choirs (Music) [9]
- Furniture [9]
- Gymnasiums [9]
- Horses [9]
- School children [9]
- Flowers [8]
- Middlebury College [8]
- Bowling [7]
- Camp Holy Cross (Vt.) [7]
- Dolls [7]
- Flag raising and lowering [7]
- Soldiers [7]
- Auditoriums [6]
- Gardens [6]
- Actors [5]
- Architectural photography [5]
- Automobiles [5]
- Beauty operators [5]
- Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Christ the King Church (Burlington, Vt.) [5]
- Classrooms [5]
- Landscape photography [5]
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- Radio stations [5]
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- Young men [5]
- Advertising [4]
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- Class reunions [4]
- General Electric Company [4]
- Knights of Columbus [4]
- Marriage [4]
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- Animals [3]
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- Factories [3]
- Hospitals [3]
- Modern Woodmen of America [3]
- Mount St. Mary's Academy (Burlington, Vermont) [3]
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum [3]
- St. Joseph Co-Cathedral (Burlington, Vt.) [3]
- Statues [3]
- Stores, Retail [3]
- Street photography [3]
- Theaters [3]
- Theaters Stage-setting and scenery [3]
- VermontGovernor [3]
- Wills, William H.1882-1946 [3]
- Bands (Music) [2]
- Blackface entertainers [2]
- Boats and boating [2]
- Boy Scouts [2]
- Bridegrooms [2]
- Buses [2]
- Camp Abnaki (Vt.) [2]
- Choruses [2]
- Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Rutland, Vt.) [2]
- Convenience stores [2]
- Department stores [2]
- Exhibit booths [2]
- Greek letter societies [2]
- Lincoln Inn (Essex Junction, Vt.) [2]
- Machinery [2]
- Musicians [2]
- Radio Receivers and reception [2]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [2]
- American Legion [1]
- Athletics [1]
- Bridges [1]
- Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cafeterias [1]
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Cavalry [1]
- Cavalry horses [1]
- Dance [1]
- Dance recitals [1]
- Exhibitions [1]
- Farms [1]
- First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.) [1]
- Fraternal Order of Eagles [1]
- Girl Scouts [1]
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows [1]
- Parades [1]
- Radio actors and actresses [1]
- Radio broadcasters [1]
- Railroad trains [1]
- Refrigerators [1]
- Rifles [1]
- Saint Michael's College (Colchester, Vt.) [1]
- Supreme Cootiette Club of the United States [1]
- Tap dancers [1]
- Vermont Structural Steel Corporation [1]
- Volleyball [1]
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Topic: ("Women")
Title: Agricultural Exhibitions
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Two women tend an exhibition booth with sign reading "Phelps Craft Plastics". Many decorative items displayed. 1940s?
Title: American Legion
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-1947
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
American Legion meal ; 1945/1947? Photo no. 1.
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: Athletics, unidentified
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated; undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Portrait of an unidentified young women's rifle team. Women in the front row wear bloomers. Probably 1920s.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a lady bowler standing in a lane holding a bowling ball. A scenic wall mural is seen in the background. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1944 photo of a lady bowling. A scenic wall mural is seen in the background. In the 1940s there were four alleys listed in the city directory in Burlington as well as one each in Winooski and Essex Junction.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter 1940s About two dozen women and one man seated at dining tables with bowling pin recognition awards or trophies also on the tables.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
Winter 1940s Group photo of women bowlers assembled for a celebratory dinner. On the table are bowling pin awards or trophies. One man is seated center.
Title: Bowling Leagues
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1951
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1940s or 1951? Celebratory dinner with women bowlers assembled around dining tables for a group portrait. Bowling trophies are seen on the central table. Small water glasses filled with pansies decorate the tables. Photo #6.
Title: Burlington: "Cooties" Club
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: undated
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
1940s celebratory meal gathering of textile union at the mill on the corner of St. Paul and King Street, Burlington. Could these be members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 438 (CIO)? Looks to be Christmas as there are evergreen bows attached to the pillars and a tree at the far end. Crepe paper streamers decorate the ceiling.
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Title: Camp Abnaki [5X7's]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 Two woman perhaps staff at Camp Abnaki. Photo #1.
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Title: Camp Abnaki [5X7's]
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1944-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1944 Two photos (#s 3 and 5) Two women, perhaps staff at Camp Abnaki.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 photo of adult campers on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 photo of adult campers on a rocky shore. Some stand on wooden stairs leading from Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 photo of adult campers sharing a meal on the rocky shoreline. Photo #28.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 photo of adult campers sharing a meal on the rocky shoreline. Photo #30.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 photo of adult campers on the rocky shoreline of Lake Champlain. Photo #29.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shoreline of Lake Champlain while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #7.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Four women relax outside a cabin on the grounds of Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the porch of one of the buildings on the grounds of Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shoreline sharing a meal while two women in front serve up some food. Photo #25.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit and relax with books on the porch of one of the buildings on the grounds of Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shore while two women serve up some food while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont.
Title: Camp Birchcliffe
Creator: McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
Date: 1945-07
Resource type: photographs
Resource type: black-and-white photographs
July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain while at Camp Birchcliffe, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #31.
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