Louis L. McAllister Photographs
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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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1946-1947
- Description: 1946 or 1947 photo of a young girl in the living room seated in an upholstered chair with her dolls and the family dog.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1949-1950
- Description: 1949 or 1950 portrait photo of mother and her five children. Photo #3.
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Portraits - Unidentified Groups
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Four young women (teenagers?, high school students?) stand in a row on a stage. Three are in identical outfits. Photo #2.
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Portraits - Individuals
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- Date Created: 1957-1958
- Description: High school graduate in cap and gown stands with another girl in backyard of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Dated 1957 / 1958.
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Portraits - Individuals
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- Date Created: 1959
- Description: McAllister's grandniece, Joanne Raymond, a graduate poses in the backyard of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave., Burlington in her cap and gown and holds a bouquet of flowers. See also mcalA16F01i02, mcalB16F17i09, mcalB16F18i04
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Theatricals
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: Another 1944 photo of 18 girls all dressed alike in long dresses are on stage. They pose with stretched pieces of cloth that when viewed seem to form 6 pointed "snowflakes." Winter pageant or performance? Photo #1. See also mcalB18F33i01
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Vergennes High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1944-1945
- Description: 1944 -1945 Vergennes High School girls basketball team, with coaches and school principal(?) in the gymnasium. A trophy is on the floor.
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Mount St. Mary's - Student Activities
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- Date Created: 1961
- Description: 1961 photo Cheering Squad of Mount St. Mary's assembled on the front steps. Top row left to right is Georgiana Girard, Rose Ryan, Mary Tessier, Kathleen Donohue, ?. Front row left to right Lynne Basiliere, Joann Le Blanc, Therese Tessier, (Captain [later Terrie Kneen), Marion Brown, Claudette Doucette, Sue Hergenrother. Photo #24.
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Portraits, children, unidentified
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- Date Created: 1957-1958
- Description: 1957/1958 photo of two young girls stand in a living room of a home amid a collection of dolls each holding a large antique German bisque head baby doll. Many other German bisque, china and cloth headed dolls also seen. Among the collection are nun dolls, German made china, Grace Storey Putnam baby in stroller, Kathe Kruse dolls, plus several fashion dolls. Photo #1. See mcalB16F13i07 for what may be same location.
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Portraits, children, unidentified
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- Description: Children portray characters in a dramatic production from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass. Some of the characters are the Red Queen, White Queen, Mock Turtle, Mad Hatter.
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