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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Bristol School -Class Pictures [Prints]
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- Description: 1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #5.
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Bristol School -Class Pictures [Prints]
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- Description: 1945 Bristol School class photo in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #2.
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Essex Junction Boys Band
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- Description: Winter, 1945 photo of the Essex Junction Boys Band. Instruments include clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, and bass and snare drums. Band director very likely the gentleman on the left. Photo #2.
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Christ the King School - Graduation
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- Description: Christ the King School - Graduation 1952. Dog in attendance at the far left.
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Nazareth School - Graduates
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- Date Created: 1950
- Description: Nazareth School, Class of 1950 (as seen in the parish history published in 1988), with Rev. (Msgr.) Joseph Pariseau, pastor, and Rev. William F. Laliberte, curate. Engraved above the main entrance "Ecole Nazareth 1929." The school was renamed St. Joseph School in 1961, after another Burl. by the same name had closed, thereby ending any potential name confusion.
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Nazareth School - Graduates
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: Nazareth School, Class of 1951, as seen in the parish history published in 1988, with Rev. (Msgr.) Joseph Pariseau (wearing biretta) and Rev. William F. Laliberte.
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Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
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- Date Created: 1961
- Description: 1961 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy students standing outside on the steps of the school. Photo #7.
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Nazareth School, Burlington
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- Description: A group of graduates, identified in St. Joseph parish history as Class of 1956, gather in front of the school for a formal class photo. Msgr. Charles Marcoux stands at the center of the group. Boys wear solid colored robes and are in the back rows. The girls are in white robes and are in the front. Photo #4. 8th grade graduates at Nazareth School (later called St Joseph Parish School) at 20 Allen Street in Burlington. Closed 2010. Photo #4.
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Nazareth School, Burlington
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- Description: A group of graduates, identified in St. Joseph parish history as Class of 1960, gather in front of the school for a formal class photo. Msgr. Charles Marcoux stands at the center of the group. Boys wear solid colored robes and are in the back rows. The girls are in white robes and are in the front. Photo #3. 8th grade graduates at Nazareth School (later called St Joseph Parish School) at 20 Allen Street in Burlington. Closed 2010.
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Cathedral High School, Burlington
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- Description: A group of students gather in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception school for a formal class photo. Religion class? Two priests stand at either end of the back row. Some boys wear suit and tie; girls all in dresses. Photo #1. Undated.
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