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, families, unidentified
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- Description: An outdoor group portrait of an unidentified man and woman with eight children as they stand in a field in front of a large evergreen tree. See same family group in mcalA09F12i34 and mcalA15F02i31, i32, i33, i34, i35
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Portraits, families, unidentified
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- Description: A Christmas family portrait with mother, father and four children. Gifts seen beneath the tree and behind. The oldest girl proudly holds up her hard plastic bride doll in wedding gown and veil.
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Burlington High School - Miscellaneous
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- Description: 1955 photo of George Hagar, vice-president of Hagar Hardware & Paint Company and his daughter, Harriet, a Burlington High School student. Photo appears in the 1955 BHS yearbook Oread, p. 135.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Camps - Summer
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- Date Created: 1946/1947
- Description: 1946/1947 photo of 2 women, a young boy and a man (perhaps a family?) sitting in Adirondack style chairs outside on the lawn. See mcalB14F21i08 Camps - Summer for same location and chairs but with different family.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1947
- Description: 1947 photo of two young children (boys?) seated on the floor in front of a Christmas tree surrounded by Christmas toys. Seen are a small train on tracks, a Bambi rocker, a wagon, plush toys, books and noise makers.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 family photo of three children, a girl, a boy and an infant, seated in an upholstered chair. Photo #5.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 portrait photo of three children (a sister, brother and infant sibling) sitting in an upholstered chair. Photo #6. Sames children as in mcalB14F05i03
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 photo of two boys wearing boxing gloves and standing in front of a Christmas tree. Other toys include a train, children's tea set, stuffed animals, punching bag.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1956-1957
- Description: 1956 or 1957 photo of three children in front of their family Christmas tree.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 indoor photo of five family members, with three generations present (and perhaps a serviceman absent). Probable: two sisters (standing), their parents, and infant grandchild.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs