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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Vermont Structural Steel
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- Description: Interior view of a building at Vermont Structural Steel with overhead machinery and a rail track seen to the left. Photo No. 28.
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Vermont Structural Steel
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 interior view of a building at Vermont Structural Steel with overhead machinery, a ground track system seen at the right and a metal ladder to the left. Photo No. 29.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of mostly older women veterans gather for a portrait. They wear the caps of their organization and each has a corsage. A banner in the background reads in part Ladies Auxiliary ... Howard ... Post No. ... Burlington"
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of older women dressed in white dresses pose for a group portrait. They were their organization's cap with the group's local chapter number. 797? Photo no. 2.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of seven women each wearing a corsage stand for a portrait. Photo no. 4.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of women veterans gather for a portrait.
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Weddings
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- Description: Photo of a bride surrounded by the women of her bridal party in their wedding attire. They hold bouquets; even the two young girls seen in front.
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Weddings
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- Description: A young bride and her military uniformed groom pose in a church sanctuary. Location unknown. Could it be the First United Methodist Church on So Winooski Ave (address 21 Buell Street) in Burlington, Vermont?
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Weddings
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- Description: A young bride and groom stand behind their wedding cake with their wedding party.
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Winooski
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- Date Created: 1928
- Description: 1928 view of Main Street, Winooski, Vermont with buildings and concrete or cement walls near embankment of the Winooski River. In center background is the Brunswick Hotel.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs