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.
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Middlebury College - German Summer School
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 photo of Middlebury College German Summer School faculty. Identifiable persons, front row, are: director Werner Neuse (3rd from r.) and Louise Kiefer (2nd from r.); back row (l.-r.): Harold Lenz, Herbert Lederer, Joachim Seyppel. Enrollment in 1956 was 79.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Middlebury College - Russian Summer School - Faculty
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- Description: A duplicate of "undated" mcalB11F08i19, this 1958 photo appears in Stephen A. Freeman's history of the Foreign Language Schools at Middlebury College (p. 146). Faculty members are, l.-r.: N. Efremov, N. Timasheff, M. Fayer, Margaret Fayer, N. Poltoratzky, B. Normano, and G. Taskin.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Military Groups
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- Date Created: 1935-1936
- Description: 1935 or 1936 photo of mess tent and military or civilian personnel with cooking equipment. Photo #5.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Military Groups
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- Date Created: 1935-1936
- Description: 1935 or 1936 photo of military men with cannons and other artillery. Ethan Allen Artillery Range?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Military Officers
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- Date Created: 1935-1936
- Description: 1935 or 1936 portrait photo of a group of military officers.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Milton Elementary School
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Milton Elementary School class portrait with their teacher. Photo #20.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Milton High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 Milton High School class picture. Photo #13.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Milton High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 Milton High School class picture. Girl in back row, 2nd from left has P. B. on her blouse. Could this be Phyllis Rosemary Barrett (Class of 1949)?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mt. St. Mary's - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1954
- Description: 1954 photo of Mt St Mary's basketball team posing for a group portrait in the gymnasium. Photo #14.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs