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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Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions
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- Description: Marine exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing motor boats, life jackets and other boating equipment being sold by Chiott's Marine Distributors. Photo #3.
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Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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- Date Created: 1937-03-04
- Description: March 4, 1937. View of work man and machinery at a sewer pipe construction plant. Pipes were once made of clay or concrete tiles formed around a hollow core. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington?
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Burlington Streets: Lake Street
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Undated photo (1930s?) of Lake Street in Burlington. A view of the road repaving project looking north along its length from the intersection of College and Lake Street. To the right is Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., Inc (office 14 College St.). Further down is seen the Wilson & Co. sign for wholesale meats. On the right is a railroad car. May be W.P.A. project No. 65-12-336 of 1936.
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Burlington Streets: North Street
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- Date Created: 1940-03-13
- Description: March 13, 1940. Intersection of North Street and North Winooski Avenue. This view shows the style of new street signs just erected on North Street from North Winooski Avenue to North Avenue. These signs were designed, constructed and erected by Street Department employees during the winter months. The name plates were purchased from the Lyle Signs Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. There were seventeen of these signs constructed and erected on this street. The street lamp posts have spites projecting out from them to aid workmen climbing up. Retail stores and businesses include the The Silver Star Restaurant at 202 North. Grand Union in-between the Silver Star and Mazel's that is at 194 North. Dentist office above the Silver Star.
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Creameries
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- Description: Creamery buildings with both a truck hauling milk cans and a horse and wagon carrying two milk cans. Date and location unknown.
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Penick and Ford (Marble Ave)
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- Description: Wooden barrels and and a shoot with rock like material at Penick & Ford, that bottled Vermont Maid Syrup and Brer Rabbit Gold Label New Orleans Molasses. Noted as being the country's third largest maker of corn products in 1931.
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Portraits, groups, unidentified
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- Description: Susan Ramsey and her father, Mr. Lee S. Ramsey (of Vermont Hardware Co.) of Burlington. Photo appears in Burlington High School yearbook 1955, Oread, p. 139.
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Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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- Description: View of a sewer pipe construction plant. Pipes were once made of clay or concrete tiles formed around a hollow core. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington in the 1930s?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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- Date Created: 1937-03-05
- Description: March 5, 1937. This view shows the inside of the pouring plant in the construction of sewer tile pipes. Note the overhead track used for pulling the steel cores. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington?
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Burlington High School Groups
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- Date Created: 1954
- Description: 1954 photo of BHS senior student Peter Upton (left) with Mr. George E. Little, Sr. (seated) and George Little, Jr. of the George Little Press of Burlington. A version of this photo appears in the 1954 BHS yearbook, Oread, p. 103, Advertisements section.
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