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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Business Enterprises - I-Z
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    • Description: Elias Lyman Coal Company storage building with coal chutes. Undated.
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    Camp Abnaki - Staff
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      • Description: 1950 group photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #3.
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      Camp Abnaki - Staff
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        • Description: 1951 group photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #4. The man seated to the right of totem pole is pictured in other camp photos of the 1950s. mcalB04F19i08, mcalB04F22i09, mcalB04F22i08
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        Burlington High School - Yearbook Staff
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          • Description: 1954 photo of Mr. George E. Little (seated) of George Little Press with Mr. George E. Little, Jr. and two BHS seniors (Roger Baker, left)
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          Burlington High School Track Team
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            • Description: Undated photo of BHS track team with Coach Carl Adams. Photo #1.
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            Burlington High School Track Team
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              • Description: 1945 BHS track team with Coach Holland "Dutch" Smith.
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              Business Enterprises - C-D
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                • Description: 1935/1936 photo of a railroad freight car and workmen with a load of Pabst Export Beer for the M. & F. C. Dorn Co, Inc. a bottling company located in the 1940s at 266 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont.
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                Cathedral High School - Basketball
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                  • Description: 1957 photo of Cathedral High School boys' basketball team in the school gymnasium. Photo #43.
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                  Cathedral High School - Cheerleaders
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                    • Description: Girls of the Cathedral High School cheerleading squad posing in the Cathedral High School gymnasium. Photograph is dated 1956. Photo #33.
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                    Cathedral High School - Faculty
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                      • Description: A portrait of the faculty of Cathedral High School taken at the Pearl Street entrance to the school. The photograph is dated summer 1937. Photo #1.
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