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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Miniature of Portraits, families, unidentified
Portraits, families, unidentified
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    • Description: A large group of family members gathered for a multi-generation photo outside a large brick building with fluted columns on the porch. The elderly man wearing the hat and woman to the right of him also seen in mcalA15F01i05. See also mcalA15F01i13 for a smaller group photo of some of the women and the infant child.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Portraits - Family
    Portraits - Family
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      • Date Created: 1951-1952
      • Description: 1952 indoor photo of couple and child seen in mcalB15F05i03, but here the couple have switched places.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Portraits - Family
      Portraits - Family
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        • Date Created: 1949-1950
        • Description: 1949 or 1950 group portrait of four young children and a young woman (oldest sister)
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Portraits - Family
        Portraits - Family
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          • Date Created: 1947-1948
          • Description: Ca. 1947 indoor photo of a couple with their infant.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Portraits, children, unidentified
          Portraits, children, unidentified
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            • Description: Two young children seated in an upholstered chair. The older child sits on the arm of the chair while the younger baby sits leaning in the corner of the chair against her older sister. The baby wears a crocheted sweater and matching booties.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Portraits - Children
            Portraits - Children
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              • Date Created: 1956-1957
              • Description: 1956 / 1957 portrait photo of an infant baby girl sitting in a chair.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Portraits - Family
              Portraits - Family
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                • Date Created: 1958
                • Description: 1958 indoor photo (dated elsewhere as 1947: see mcalB14F26i05) of a couple with their young child.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Portraits - Family
                Portraits - Family
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                  • Date Created: 1944
                  • Description: 1944 indoor family portrait photo. Mother holds a new born baby girl.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Portraits, families, unidentified
                  Portraits, families, unidentified
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                    • Description: Multi generation family photo of two older women, an infant and a young man and woman. They are assembled in perhaps a living room with bold patterned wallpaper of leaves and foliage.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Portraits - Children
                    Portraits - Children
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                      • Date Created: 1950
                      • Description: 1950 photo of an infant in a living room in front of a Christmas tree. Child is seated the on arm of an upholstered chair. A satin quilted baby blanket is spread out on the floor. Mother smiles at the far left. See also mcalB15F03i19 for mother and father with baby.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs