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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Trinity College - Groups
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 photo of Trinity College students gathered in a lounge or music room (piano, far left). Photo #23.
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Trinity College - Groups
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of Trinity College students, probably undergraduates. Photo #10.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Trinity College - Nurses
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- Date Created: 1947
- Description: 1947 Graduating class of Nursing students in front of the Bishop De Goesbriand Hospital, near Trinity College. Photo #1.
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Trinity College - Sports & Activities
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 Trinity College students gathered in an office in the Admin. Building (Mann Hall).
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Trinity College - Sports & Activities
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 Music lesson or rehearsal at Trinity College. Faculty member is probably Miss Dorothy Hunt.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM - Class Reunions
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- Description: Class of 1920 at their 30th (or 31st) reunion, assembled on the UVM Green with Williams Science Hall in the background (left).
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UVM - Class Reunions
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- Description: Class of 1932, assembled near the Waterman Building. Probably a 1957 photo of their 25th reunion.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM - Class Reunions
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- Description: (Duplicate of mcalA18F11i18) Reunion of University of Vermont Class of 1907, taken in 1957 at their 50th reunion. Ferdinand H. Pease (2nd row, 3rd from left) is shown giving the reunion address to his class in the alumni magazine (July, 1957). Waterman building in background.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM - College of Medicine
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of 5 graduates of the College of Medicine holding their rolled diplomas, in front of what is now the Psychology Dept. in John Dewey Hall.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
UVM - Fraternities - Alpha Tau Omega
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- Description: Members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, with house at 21 So. Williams St., Burlington, Vt. (Same group as mcalB19F24i04.) Dated 1953. Photo #8.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs