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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Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave.
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- Date Created: 1928-10-27
- Description: Photograph dated Oct. 27, 1928 of a road project on North Winooski Ave. The man in the center of the photograph is standing on the old rail bed of the trolley.The house behind the crew are located at 31 and 35 North Winooski Avenue.
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Road Construction
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- Date Created: 1928
- Description: Dated 1928. Road crew work with machinery smoothing the newly laid pavement.
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Winooski Bridge (4X5's)
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- Date Created: 1928-11-26
- Description: November 26, 1928. The new Winooski Bridge taken from Winooski lower Road (i.e. Riverside Ave).
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Winooski Bridge Construction (4X5's)
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- Date Created: 1928-06-12
- Description: June 12, 1928. A view of the new construction of the Winooski Bridge to the left and of the temporary pontoon bridge to the right. Only pedestrians were allowed on the pontoon bridge that was built after the 1927 flood. Champlain Mill is the large building in the background.
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Bridges, Potash Brook (4X5)
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- Date Created: 1928
- Description: Construction of bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
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Burlington Streets: University Place
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- Date Created: 1928-11-21
- Description: November 21, 1928. University Place looking north from Main Street at intersection of Williston Road. Note the new improvements consisting of integral curb and gutters, pavement consisting of a 6" concrete base with 2" asphalt top, also new ornamental lighting on street. The University of Vermont green is to the left. Old Mill is center right and to the extreme right is the Gymnasium (later to become Royall Tyler Theatre). Elm trees line the street.
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Road Construction
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- Date Created: 1928-09-10
- Description: September 10, 1928. Workmen, bags of cement, trucks, machinery and road side billboards all are seen at this road construction site. On the photo's left side is seen strung lines to plumb the straight edge of the road side.
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Winooski Bridge Construction
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- Date Created: 1928-07-03
- Description: July 3, 1928. Construction workers seen on the steel beams during the construction of the Winooski Bridge. It was destroyed in the 1927 flood and reopened in August 1928.
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Bridges, Potash Brook
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- Date Created: 1928
- Description: Workers constructing bridge improvement, Potash Brook, South Burlington
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Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave.
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- Date Created: 1928-09-17
- Description: Photograph dated Sept. 17, 1928, looking south on North Winooski Avenue from the intersection with North Street, showing the trolley tracks. This is the first in a pair of photographs showing the road surface before and after the paving project. Picture 2 has the id number mcalA07F10i13.
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