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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Business Enterprises - A-B
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- Date Created: 1935/1936
- Description: 1935/1936 photo of Burlington Electric Motor Service.
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Business Enterprises - A-B
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- Description: Burlington Farm Supply Co. photo showing a variety of equipment by Case (maker of machines) along with employees, automobiles.
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Business Enterprises - E-H
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- Date Created: 1935/1936
- Description: 1935-1936 Fassetts Bakery truck advertising Sno-Flake Bread.
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Business Enterprises - I-Z
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 photo of Ernest Lesage Fuel Service, located at 104 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, Vermont.
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Business Enterprises - I-Z
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 photo of Coca-Cola Bottling Company at 266 Pine Street in Burlington, Vermont.
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Business Enterprises - I-Z
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- Description: 1945 photo of Northern Oil Co. at 201 College Street, Burlington, Vermont. To the far left is seen White's Dairy Products.
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Camp Abnaki - Activities
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- Description: A group of campers and their counselor holding a skunk seen alongside a row of cabins at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated 1951. Photo #26.
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Camp Abnaki - Cabins
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 photo of young campers standing in front of their cabin, Agaskw, with their counselor. Photo #14. Some of the boys wear swimming trunks.
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Camp Abnaki - Campers and Families
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- Description: Young campers lined up outside a Vermont Transit Lines bus with counselor and bus driver at Camp Abnaki in North Hero, Vt. Photograph is dated July 1944. Photo #32.
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Camp Abnaki - Campers and Families
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- Description: July 1944. Group photo of campers gathered around the totem pole in front of one of the main buildings at Camp Abnaki. Photo #37.
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