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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Miniature of Portraits - Individuals
Portraits - Individuals
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    • Date Created: 1951
    • Description: A workman uses a wrench to tighten a bolt on a heavy piece of machinery. He stands in an open commercial room with a brick floor. Heavy industrial size pipes seen. He rests his foot on a metal box with a handle and mesh screen top. Dated 1951.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
    Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
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      • Date Created: circa 1951
      • Description: Ca. 1951 photo of steel disc-cutting machine. Vt. Structural Steel specialized in engineering and designing steel products for industry and other enterprises.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Sewer Tile Construction Plant
      Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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        • Date Created: 1937-03-04
        • Description: March 4, 1937. View of some machinery at a sewer tile construction plant.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Sewer Tile Construction Plant
        Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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          • Description: Undated but probably March 1937. This view shows the asphalt mixer scales, asphalt bucket, etcx85 used in weighting and mixing the concrete for the manufacture of the reinforced concrete sewer tile. All aggregates were heated in the dryer, screened into bins, and batched by weight. The water was also weighed in the asphalt bucket with the dial scales in the foreground. See also mcalA17F02i10
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Shelburne Shipyard
          Shelburne Shipyard
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            • Description: Two crew men from the Shelburne Shipyard stand on the huge boat cradle that is partially submerged in the waters of Lake Champlain.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel
            Vermont Structural Steel
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              • Description: Steel beams, equipment and machinery seen in this view of the interior of a building of Vermont Structural Steel. Dated1951.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel
              Vermont Structural Steel
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                • Description: Interior view of Vermont Structural Steel building filled with machinery and supplies. Employees work with huge beams and steel plates. 1951.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel
                Vermont Structural Steel
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                  • Date Created: 1951
                  • Description: 1951 photo of an employee of Vermont Structural Steel turns one of the four locks to a large box shaped container with an open door. Photo #52.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions
                  Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions
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                    • Description: Frigidaire kitchen appliance exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing refrigerators and freezers sold by Strong Hardware of Burlington.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Shelburne Shipyard
                    Shelburne Shipyard
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                      • Description: Two crew men from the Shelburne Shipyard stand on the huge boat cradle that is partially submerged in the waters of Lake Champlain.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs