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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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: 1961?? A group of young ladies strike a pose on an outdoor platform. Many have an arm or leg extended and wear ballet slippers. Girls summer camp, may be MacArthur or Marycrest. Photo #8. See also mcalB04F32i05 and mcalB05F01i01
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Dance Recitals
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Anne Sousie strikes a pose in an organdy dress with hat, gloves and wearing tap dance shoes. Location 138 No. Winooski Ave, Burlington, Vermont. Students of Lorette Sousie at the Lorette Sousie School of Dance, located at 115 North Ave, Burlington. Date circa 1955-56. Photo 11.
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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: A large group photo of children (one boy) dressed in various costumes. The sit or stand on a stage with two adults (may be dance instructors). One holds a bouquet of flowers. May be Fall 1952. Location unknown. Photo 1.
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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: Seven women tap dancers form a line in short skirt dance recital outfits. The woman in the center wears a different outfit and may even be the dance instructor. She also appears in mcalA10F03i04. A wall length mirror is behind them with framed dance photos lining the top of the mirror.
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: Seven young girls stand on stage in tap shoes and dance recital outfits. One hand is raised to their heads, the other on their hips and one leg bent with foot raised. Location Lyman C Hunt Middle School on North Ave in Burlington Vermont taken circa 1957-61. Students of Lorette Sousie at the Lorette Sousie School of Dance in Burlington. Photo #23.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: Photo of a 1949 photo of two young girls (sisters?) pinned to a surface. They wear matching ballerina outfits, tulle over-skirts, flower garlands in their hair and strike a pose with arms outstretched. They stand in front of a fireplace.
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Camp Marycrest - Activities
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- Description: Campers pair up similar to a square dance promenade and form a circle on the grounds of Camp Marycrest for what may be a dance lesson.
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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: Ten tap dance teenage girls form a in a chorus line with leg bent, hand on hip in their dance recital costumes. Location and date unknown. Photo 4.
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: Four young boys salute as they form a straight line in their dance recital toy soldier outfits complete with white gloves and tap dance shoes. They stand before a large wall mirror in which their image is reflected. Students of Lorette Sousie of the Lorette Sousie School of Dance, in Burlington, Vermont. Circa 1955-66. Photo taken at 138 No. Winooski Ave in Burlington. Photo 19
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: Roland Bergeron and Anne Sousie pose. They are students of Lorette Sousie of the Lorette Sousie School of Dance located in Burlington, Vermont. He is in top hat and tuxedo and his partner is in her dance recital costume and tap dance shoes. Location 138 No. Winooski Ave, Burlington, circa 1955-56. Photo 30.
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