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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290 Burlington (Vt.). 147 Buildings. 84 Stores, Retail. 83 Employees. 56 Street photography. 51 Machinery. 47 Men. 41 Portrait photography. 38 Interior architecture. 37 Advertising. 32 G.S. Blodgett Corporation. 32 Service stations. 28 Automobiles. 28 Vermont Structural Steel Corporation. 26 Construction projects. 23 High school students. 23 Trucks. 20 Burlington (Vt.) Dept. of Streets. 20 Construction workers. 20 Department stores. 20 Women. 19 Architectural photography. 13 S.S. Kresge Company. 12 Family. 11 Burlington Memorial Auditorium (Burlington, Vt.). 11 Offices. 10 Winooski (Vt.). 9 Black Cat Cafe (Burlington, Vt.). 9 Dwellings. 9 Restaurants. 8 Exhibit booths. 8 Exhibitions. 7 Auditoriums. 7 Boats and boating. 7 Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.). 7 Drugstores. 6 Bank buildings. 5 Beauty operators. 5 Painting. 5 Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc. 5 Sheldon Academy of Beauty Culture (Burlington, Vt.). 4 Convenience stores. 4 Cosmetics. 4 Dolls. 4 Street-railroad tracks. 4 Trailers. 3 A.M. Kidder & Co., Inc. 3 Animals. 3 Billboards. 3 Boys. 3 Church buildings. 3 Gas ovens. 3 Manufacturing and Tool Corp. 3 Railroad tracks. 3 Refrigerators. 2 A.D. Pease Grain Co. 2 Airplanes. 2 Burlington International Airport. 2 Champlain, Lake. 2 Cows. 2 First Baptist Church (Burlington, Vt.). 2 Furniture. 2 Hotels. 2 House furnishings. 2 Landscape photography. 2 Oil storage tanks. 2 Puppets. 2 Stoves. 2 Toys. 2 Van Ness House. 1 Burlington Federal Savings. 1 Burlington Rapid Transit Company. 1 Buses. 1 Children. 1 Christmas greens. 1 Dairying -- Equipment and supplies. 1 Farms. 1 Flowers. 1 Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Horses. 1 Infants. 1 Mallets Bay (Vt.). 1 Railroad trains. 1 Snow removal. 1 St. Albans (Vt.). 1 Street signs. 1 Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Tank trucks. 1 Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery. 1 Theaters. 1 Urban parks. 1 Vergennes (Vt.). 1 Vergennes Inn (Vt.). 1 Wreckers (Vehicles).

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Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings
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    • Date Created: 1947
    • Description: 1947 photo of the physical plant at Vermont Structural Steel, with track conveyors and pulleys for moving girders and other steel products. The sign for another business, Canada Dry Bottling Co., can be seen in the distance (although no such business is listed in the Burlington City directory of 1946 or '48).
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
    Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
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      • Date Created: circa 1951
      • Description: Ca. 1951 photo of employee at Vt. Structural Steel working on a cone-shaped architectural piece.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
      Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
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        • Date Created: circa 1951
        • Description: Ca. 1951 photo of the interior of a large shop at Vt. Structural Steel, with a variety of machines, equipment, and steel products contained in a massive steel edifice.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
        Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
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          • Date Created: circa 1951
          • Description: Ca. 1951 photo of a large workshop at Vt. Structural Steel. Among the loose arrangement of fuel tanks, machinery, and hoses, there are piles of steel products in various shapes and sizes.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
          Vermont Structural Steel Co. - Buildings' Interiors
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            • Date Created: circa 1951
            • Description: Ca. 1951 photo of a shop at Vt. Structural Steel, where a cone-shaped structure is being made for a building or machine. Fashioning custom-made objects from steel was one of several services offered by Vt. Structural Steel.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Vermont Structural Steel
            Vermont Structural Steel
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              • Date Created: 1951
              • Description: 1951 Interior view of the Vermont Structural Steel plant on 207 Flynn Ave, Burlington, Vermont.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Portraits, groups, unidentified
              Portraits, groups, unidentified
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                • Description: Six men stop their work and stand next to two butchered cows (steers?) in a meat processing plant. Undated.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Stores, Exteriors
                Stores, Exteriors
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                  • Description: Burlington retail store entrances and parking lot for Irving's Fashions, Singer and People's.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Kresge's (Burlington Store) - exteriors, excavation, construction
                  Kresge's (Burlington Store) - exteriors, excavation, construction
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                    • Description: Completed construction of S.S. Kresge Company department store #397 on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont. Seen here is the cement block wall as it adjoins a neighboring building.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Preston, William (in Burlington Store)
                    Preston, William (in Burlington Store)
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                      • Description: Photo of William Preston of Preston's jewelers once located on upper Church Street in Burlington, Vermont. He sits with a female high school student in the store. This photo may have been taken for a local high school year book.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs