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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St. Anthony's School Burlington - Groups
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- Description: An assembly of St. Anthony's School students at graduation time. Caps, gowns, and diplomas in hand. The priest is Rev. Walter F. Charland, who, according to the Burlington Directory, served the parish from ca. 1956-1962. The site could be the main altar of the church on Flynn Ave. (Same group as that in mcalA16F10i01, but 3 students in this photo are wearing their glasses.) Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
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- Description: 1947 Cathedral Grammar School library. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School
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- Description: 1957 photo of students gathered outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont for a group picture. Photo #12? (Image printed in reverse as the letters on the church arch are backwards).
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School
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- Description: 1958 photo of students and one older man (maybe a priest in the back row) outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a group picture.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Christ the King School - Graduation
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- Description: Christ the King School - Graduation 1956/1957.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
St. Anthony's Church and School
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- Date Created: 1950
- Description: St. Anthony School Class of 1950 on graduation day, with Rev. Edmund Marion, pastor, in the middle. Photo #1?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
St. Anthony's Church and School
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 Graduation Day at St. Anthony School, with Revs. Bernard G. Couture (left) and Edmund Marion, pastor. Church is on the left; the parish rectory, right; and the school (with extra window lattices...or something), in the rear. St. Anthony School closed in 1971. Photo #3.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Graduations - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1949
- Description: 1949 photo of graduates in cap and gown gathered outside on the steps in front of their Memorial School. All wear the same colored graduation gowns. A small sign on the wall to the right reads, "Standard School Vermont."
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Graduations - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of graduates gathered outside in front of their high school building each holding a diploma. Girls are in uniform. They all wear a long ribbon pinned to the left shoulder. This may be a Catholic school. Is this Nazareth later St. Joseph's in Burlington, Vt?
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Graduation - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of a small group of graduates in cap and gown gathered in front of what may be the Round Church in Richmond, Vermont.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs