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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    • Date Created: 1944
    • Description: 1944 photo of a young man using a hoe and working in a large newly planted crop field.
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    Miniature of Farms
    Farms
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      • Description: View of upland meadow where a farmer is standing with his grazing herd of dairy cows of different breeds.
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      Miniature of Farms - Livestock
      Farms - Livestock
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        • Description: Undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
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        Miniature of Farms - Livestock
        Farms - Livestock
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          • Date Created: 1945
          • Description: 1945 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coops. Photo #7.
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          Miniature of Farms - Livestock
          Farms - Livestock
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            • Date Created: 1944
            • Description: 1944 farm scene with dairy cows in a pasture.
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            Miniature of Machinery
            Machinery
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              • Description: Bulk milk tank. Location may be at a creamery or dairy farm.
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              Miniature of Farms
              Farms
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                • Date Created: 1944
                • Description: 1944 photo of a woman in farm work clothes and hat working a patch of ground.
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                Miniature of Farms - Livestock
                Farms - Livestock
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                  • Date Created: 1944
                  • Description: 1944 photo of a young bull with its handler standing outside with farm buildings in the background.
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                  Portraits - Family
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                    • Date Created: 1945
                    • Description: 1945 outdoor photo of farm family in front of a garden stand. At least three generations are present. (Has an Ansel Adams look to it.)
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                    Miniature of Farms
                    Farms
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                      • Date Created: undated
                      • Description: View across a farm with dairy barn, other farm buildings, and white farmhouse to mountains in the distance. There are two automobiles in the yard and laundry hung on a clothesline.
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