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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UVM Buildings
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- Description: Undated photo of Carrigan Dairy Science Building, home of the UVM Dairy bar. Designed by architect Fred Larson and built in 1949. Renovated in 1997; demolished, 2005.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM Buildings
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- Description: College Row (now University Place) on a snowy day. Buildings in view include: Ira Allen Chapel, Billings Library, Williams Science Hall, and Old Mill.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM Groups
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- Description: A large group of men and women in costume assemble in a gymnasium type room, possibly in Southwick Hall on Redstone campus. Crepe paper streamers festoon from the ceiling. A group of musicians are seen on a stage in the background.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM Groups
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- Description: UVM Medical College Class of 1934 at graduation, with Drs. P. E. McSweeney and T. S. Brown.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Vermont Structural Steel
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- Description: Interior view of Vermont Structural Steel building filled with machinery and supplies. 1951.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of seven women each wearing a corsage stand for a portrait. Photo no. 3.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: Group of older women belonging to a Mothers Club. There are different types of these clubs ; blue star for mothers with sons and daughters in the military ; gold star for sons and daughters killed while serving. A banner is held by one woman. Photo no. 1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: Two men shake hands at a presentation where two oxygen tanks and other equipment in a container are being given. Banner in the background reads "Ladies Auxiliary Howard Plant, Post No. 782, Burlington, Vermont, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States" Instituted June 1924.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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- Description: An equestrian jumping hurdles.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Webb Estate - Trophy Room (Shelburne, VT) later in Shelburne Museum
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- Description: c1951 / 1952. Wild animal heads are mounted on the walls and fur rugs adorn the wood paneled floor of this trophy room of the Webb estate. Two stuffed bears are seen on either side of the of the room. See also mcalB21F29i03
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs