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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Burlington Airport
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- Date Created: 1944-10-06
- Description: City of Burlington, Vermont - Municipal Airport Photo dated Oct. 6, 1944. This view shows the form work for the north wall of the concrete foundation walls being constructed by Street Department forces for the resetting of the metal hangar just south of the wooden hangar. A contract was awarded to the Street Department to build these foundation walls including all materials, labor and equipment for the sum of $1500.00. Construction workers, wooden planks for getting up to and down from the main platform and vehicles can be seen.
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Burlington City Hall
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- Date Created: 1927
- Description: June 1, 1927. Construction of Burlington City Hall showing scaffolding for cupola and partial view of the fire station. James E. Cashman, General contractor.
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Burlington Street Department Buildings (Pine Street)
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- Date Created: 1942-12-09
- Description: December 9, 1942. Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vt. This view shows the triangular area at the Central Plant yard from which the old Robinson-Edwards Lumber Co. building was removed and rebuilt. Note the Street Department flagpole with the United States Flag and the Minute Man Flag as a reward for the 100% Department cooperation in the buying of war stamps and bonds by its employees.
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Burlington Street Department Buildings (Pine Street)
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- Description: Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vt. This view shows the triangular area at the Central Plant yard from which the old Robinson-Edwards Lumber Co. building was removed and rebuilt. Note the Street Department flagpole with the United States Flag and the Minute Man Flag as a reward for the 100% Department cooperation in the buying of war stamps and bonds by its employees.
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Burlington Streets: Colchester Ave
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Undated photo but may be late 1920s (1928-1929). View is at the base of Colchester Ave looking up the hill with Lower Winooski Road (Riverside Ave) to the right. Automobiles line up in the intersection. To the far right are billboards and an abandoned trolley car. The cable running across the photo may be for the no longer used trolley. Construction crew works on street pavement.
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Champlain Ferries
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- Description: Cars and a wagon with horses line up along the ferry access road to board the ferry operating on Lake Champlain. The Steamer Chateaugay can be seen to the extreme left. A portion of its name is visible along with its smoke stack and pumping arm. Buildings along side the road leading to the boarding dock are to the right. Undated but may be 1930s.
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Gas Stations
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- Description: 173-183 St. Paul St. Socony gas and service station on St. Paul Street. Three people, two men and a woman are standing out front. There are three automobiles, one of which has advertising painted on it, Austin Garage Co.
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McAllister Portraits
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- Date Created: 1961-06
- Description: June 1961. A color photo of Louis McAllister later in life standing near a car (with a dog seen in the passenger side front window) at a street curb. A city bus is in the background on its route. Elm trees are seen lining the streets. An "American" sign rises in the back.
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Automobiles
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Photograph of a man standing by two cars parked in a field
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Burlington Asphalt Plant
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Burlington Asphalt Plant automobile, trucks, and drivers
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