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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UVM Groups
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- Description: A large group of men and women (including nuns and one clergyman) assemble on the steps of Billings Library on the University of Vermont campus. This could be a class reunion or perhaps a teachers' conference held at UVM.
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UVM Groups
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- Description: Group portrait of class of 1935? All men except for one woman. All are numbered except the woman. Taken outside on steps of John Dewey Hall (College of Medicine sign to the far right).
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UVM Groups
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- Description: Undated photo of banquet in the old gymnasium (which is now the Physical Plant building and Royall Tyler Theatre), held probably on a reunion weekend or at graduation. Floor seems to be a hard dirt surface.
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UVM Ira Allen Chapel
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- Description: Ira Allen Chapel as seen from Colchester Ave. in winter, with the life-size bronze statue of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) in the foreground. Information about the statue can be found by searching the UVM Web site (keywords: Lafayette, statue, Ward, etc.) Photo embossed in lower right corner "McAllister Burlington, Vt."
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of young girls and several women gather for a portrait. Several wear military caps and neck scarves. Photo no. 4.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: Several girls in uniform wear military caps, white blouses, dark skirts, neck scarves and stand with two older women in military dress with the initials VFW on their sleeves.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of older women dressed in white dresses pose for a group portrait. They were their organization's cap with the group's local chapter number. 797? Photo no. 1.
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Webb Estate (Shelburne, VT)
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- Description: A formal wedding photo of Frederica Webb Gamble in her wedding gown.
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Trinity College, Burlington
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- Description: Photo of a woman kneeling in prayer near an altar in the Trinity College chapel. See same labeled photo for being at Christ the King School mcalA09F05i43
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Bishop Louis De Gosbriand Hospital
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- Description: A very darkly developed photo of the Bishop Louis De Gosbriand Hospital located at the corner of Pearl Street and So. Prospect St in Burlington, Vermont. A group of nuns stand on the steps left of center.
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