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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UVM Sororities - Delta Delta Delta
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    • Description: Sisters of Delta Delta Delta in front of their residence at 143 So. Willard St., Burlington, Vt.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


    UVM Sororities - Delta Delta Delta
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      • Description: Sisters of Delta Delta Delta sorority, seated perhaps in their house at 143 So. Willard St., the James W. Hickok, which the sorority bought in 1935. Occasion unknown but one calling for uniformity in dress.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


      UVM Sororities - Kappa Alpha Theta
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        • Description: Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta in their chapter house at 215 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt. (The house was built in 1900 for lawyer Charles T. Barney and later owned by the Catholic diocese as a residence for Bishop Joseph J. Rice.) Kappa Alpha Theta was the first sorority to have a chapter at UVM (1881).
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


        UVM Sororities - Pi Beta Phi
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          • Description: Sisters of Pi Beta Phi sorority, whose UVM chapter was founded in 1898. This photo was probably taken in their chapter house at 369 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


          Vergennes High School - Basketball
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            • Date Created: 1944/1945
            • Description: 1944 -1945 Vergennes High School boys basketball team, with coach and manager, in the school gymnasium. (Vergennes high school was built in 1871, replaced in 1959 by Vergennes Union high school, and demolished in 1964.)
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


            Vergennes High School - Graduates
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              • Description: Vergennes High School graduating class of 1944, assembled in front of the Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes. Photo #2.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


              Vergennes High School - Graduates
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                • Description: Three Vergennes High School graduates in front of the Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes. Undated.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                Vergennes High School - Graduates
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                  • Description: Vergennes High School graduating class of 1947 with banner, assembled in front of the Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes. Photo #1.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                  Vergennes High School - Graduates
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                    • Description: Vergennes High School graduating class of 1947 with banner, assembled in front of the Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes. Photo #3.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                    Vergennes Inn
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                      • Description: Clarks Hardware and the Vergennes Inn, at the corner of Main and Green Street in Vergennes. The site of a tavern in the late 18th c., this property was purchased by the Stevens family in 1793 and was eventually known as the Stevens House and Stevens House Hotel. Photo dated 1945.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs