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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Graduations - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 photo of a small group of graduates in cap and gown assembled outside for a group portrait along with an older man. Photo #3.
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Graduations - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of graduates gathered outside in front of their high school building each holding a diploma. Girls are in uniform. They all wear a long ribbon pinned to the left shoulder. This may be a Catholic school. Is this Nazareth later St. Joseph's in Burlington, Vt?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Graduations - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1953
- Description: 1953 photo of graduates in cap and gown gathered outside in front of their school. Girls are in light colored gowns; boys in dark. Visible overhead in the background is "Memorial School." A small sign on the wall to the right reads, "Standard School Vermont." Photo #1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy students. Photo #31.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Nazareth School - Graduates
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- Date Created: 1961
- Description: Nazareth School, Class of 1961, with Msgr. Charles Marcoux. In Fall of 1961, the school will be known as St. Joseph School instead of Ecole Nazareth or Nazareth School. The parish waited, apparently, for another St. Joseph School in Burlington to close before changing the name of its own school. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Nazareth School - Graduates
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- Date Created: 1946-1947
- Description: Nazareth School, Class of 1948 (according to the parish history published in 1988) with Rev. (Msgr.) Joseph Pariseau, pastor, and William F. Laliberte, curate. Graduation dress before cap and gown became standard was white dresses for the girls and lace to cover their hair; and jackets and white ties for the boys. The school at 20 Allen St. was renamed St. Joseph School in 1961 (another Burlington school by the same name had closed) and then closed in 2010 because of declining enrollment.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Nazareth School - Graduates
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- Date Created: 1958
- Description: Nazareth School, Class of 1958 (according to the parish history published in 1988) with Msgr. Charles Marcoux.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Piano - Recitals
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: Group photo. dated 1952, of a young piano studio at the time of their recital, with girls wearing long formal gowns and the 2 boys in jackets and bow ties. Name of the piano studio and/or its instructor unknown.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
School Groups - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1945-1946
- Description: Ca. 1945 photo of a large group of high school students, assembled outside the school for a class portrait perhaps. Identity of persons, venue, and occasion unknown. Photo #6?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Graduations - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1953
- Description: 1953 photo of young graduates (may be central or middle school) gathered for a portrait. A banner in back reads, "My life will be a good or as poor as I make it." Three school banners attached to the wall behind also read Central, Cathedral and Burlington.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs