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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Wells & Richardson Co. (Burlington, VT)
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- Description: Undated interior view of Wells & Richardson Co. (Burlington, VT)
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Winooski High School - Basketball (boys)
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 Winooski High School Boys' Basketball team. Photo #4.
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Winooski High School - Basketball (boys)
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 Winooski High School Boys' Basketball team. Photo #2.
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Winooski High School - Chorus
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- Date Created: 1949-1950
- Description: 1949 / 1950 photo of the Winooski High School girls' chorus with an adult man and woman. The singers wear choral robes. Photo #1.
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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Description: Undated (Oct. 1952?) photo of what appears to be a home economics class at Winooski High School, with stylish bobby-soxers in aprons cooking, and washing and drying dishes. A poster on the right proclaims: IT'S FUN TO SEW.
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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Description: Undated photo (Oct. 1952?) of students in a classroom at Winooski High School. History? Civics? The unfinished portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart hangs just above the blackboard. Photo #16.
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Miscellaneous
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- Date Created: circa 1950's
- Description: 1950s shoe display in a glass enclosed display case.
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Cathedral High School - Majorettes
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- Description: Cathedral High School majorettes posing in formation on bleachers. Photograph is dated April 1945. Photo #31.
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Farms
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of a woman in farm work clothes and hat working a patch of ground.
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Farms - Livestock
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of a young bull with its handler standing outside with farm buildings in the background.
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