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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Weddings
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- Description: A young bride poses in her wedding gown with baskets of flowers in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St Mary's Academy in Burlington, Vermont.
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Fanny Allen Hospital - School of Nursing Chapel
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- Description: Undated photo of the interior of the Fanny Allen Hospital School of Nursing Chapel. Photo #5.
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Fanny Allen Hospital - School of Nursing Chapel
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- Description: Undated photo of the interior of the Fanny Allen Hospital School of Nursing Chapel. Photo #8.
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Mt. St. Mary's Convent
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- Date Created: 1955
- Description: Ca. 23 women in the Sisters of Mercy community at Mount St. Mary's Sacred Heart Chapel : sisters (black veils), novices (white veils), and postulants (black tulle veils) in prayer in the choir of the chapel. Good example of Pre-Vatican II sanctuary, with the railing (where Communion is received); the altar built into the back wall of the sanctuary, requiring the priest to turn his back to the people; and the tabernacle placed centrally on the altar. Dated 1955.
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Mt. St. Mary's Convent
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: A Sister of Mercy kneeling at the Communion railing in the Sacred Heart Chapel at Mount St. Mary's. Built in the late 1880s, the convent would accommodate as many as 182 professed sisters, novices, and postulants affiliated with the Sisters of Mercy. The chapel features a broad, tiled center aisle, with pews on either side facing each other for antiphonal chanting. The sanctuary is a study in symmetry, with Gothic-arched stained-glass windows and arched passageways on either side of the altar. The abundance of polished white marble and/or granite shows that the Sisters spared no expense in creating an atmosphere of reverence for generations to come. Photo #1. Undated.
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Weddings
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of wedding party outside Ira Allen Chapel on University of Vermont campus, Burlington, Vt. Photo #2.
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UVM Ira Allen Chapel
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- Description: Ira Allen Chapel as seen from the UVM green in winter. Photo embossed in lower right corner "McAllister Burlington Vt."
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Congregational Church, First - Groups
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- Description: A photo of church staff. In the back, to the far left is Carlton Twitchell (church maintenance), the taller man is Rev. George W. Lawrence, Jr. (Associate Minister). 2nd row is Fanny Edgerton, Prudence B., Julia Smith Salmon (Choir). Front row is Rev. Charles Stanley Jones with Cora Prior 2nd from right and Helen Best on the far right. Outside the chapel next to the main church building. 1950s.
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Weddings
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- Description: A young woman of color places a crown on the head of the statue of the Virgin Mary that is surrounded by flowers in the Sacred Heart Chapel as other young ladies look on. Could this be a May Crowning? Undated. Photo #1.
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Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 group portrait of men outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #9.
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