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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Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. - Interior
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- Description: Photo of the interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp.
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Marble Island (Lake Champlain Club?) Colchester, VT
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- Description: Photo of a house Marble Island (Lake Champlain Club?) Colchester, VT
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Mary Fletcher Hospital - Construction
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 Construction of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim Mead & White. Builders Vermilya-Brown Co., Inc.
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Mary Fletcher Hospital - Construction
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 construction of Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim, Mead & White. Builders Vermilya Brown Co., Inc.
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Mary Fletcher Hospital - Construction
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 Construction of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim Mead & White. Builders Vermilya-Brown Co., Inc.
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May Crowning
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 portrait photo of women and young girls standing in what may be a chapel as they take part in May Crowning, a traditional Roman Catholic ritual that occurs in the month of May whereby an image or likeness of the Blessed Virgin is ceremonially crowned recognizing her as Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God.
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Middlebury College - French Summer School
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 ('58?) photo of the French Summer School faculty. Senior faculty seated in the front row include (l. -r.): Stephen Freeman, M. Guilloton, Claude Bourcier, and Mme Moissu. Enrollment in '57 and '58: 313, 338. Junior faculty (standing)were recruited from France and other American colleges. Photo 4.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Middlebury College - French Summer School
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- Description: French School Faculty: 1935/36 photo (no.4) of Middlebury College French Summer School faculty (+ dog), taken in front of the Chateau, which was built in 1925. Enrollment in 1935 and 1936 was 329 and 302 students, respectively. Front row center, in white trousers and shoes, is Andre Morize, professor of French and director of the French School(1925-1946). Behind him in white jacket is Stephen A. Freeman, instructor and later historian of the Middlebury Foreign Language Schools.
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Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #4.
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Middlebury College - Italian Summer School
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- Description: Middlebury College Italian Summer School: faculty and students (enrollment in '35 was 53; 70 in '36). Identifiable faculty, seated in front row, are: Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello, 3rd from l.; Gabriella Bosano, dir. 1932-38; Louis Solano; a Miss Savoia; and Michele Cantarella, 3rd from r.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs