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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Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 Cathedral High School boys' Junior Varsity basketball team. Photo #1.
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Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 Cathedral High School girls' basketball team in the school gymnasium. Photo #32.
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Cathedral High School - Cheerleaders
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- Description: Boys of the Cathedral High School cheerleading squad. Photograph is dated 1957. Photo #1.
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Cathedral High School - Cheerleaders
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- Description: Boys of the Cathedral High School cheerleading squad posing in the Cathedral High School gymnasium. Photograph is dated 1944. Photo #13.
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Cathedral High School - Football Teams
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- Description: A portrait of the Cathedral High School football team standing on the steps of the main entrance to the school. The photograph is dated 1951-1952.
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Cathedral High School - Football Teams
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- Description: A portrait of the Cathedral High School football team The photograph is dated 1958.
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Cathedral High School - Majorettes
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- Description: Cathedral High School majorettes posing in formation on the the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Photograph is dated 1946.
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Cathedral High School - Orchestra
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- Description: 1957 photo of the Cathedral High School orchestra, with conductor Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959) in the back row, left. A good balance of strings, woodwinds, and brass present, including a piano and sousaphone. Location is perhaps a ballroom with a stage. Ceiling appears decorated, and background is a forest scene.
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Cathedral High School - Orchestra
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of the Cathedral High School orchestra, which seems to consist of brass, wind, and percussion players, with one cellist. Conductor Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959) stands in the back row, right. Pearl St. entrance of the school is in the background. Photo #14.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Rifle Club
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- Description: A photograph of the Cathedral High School Rifle Club that is dated 1956.
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