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 Winooski High School - Class Pictures
Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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    • Date Created: 1952
    • Description: Oct. 1952 photo of a typing class at Winooski High School. Students are working on exercises as an instructor checks their progress. A large poster showing the typewriter keyboard is hung from the blackboard.
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    Miniature of Burlington Business College
    Burlington Business College
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      • Description: Classroom setting with male and female students of the Burlington Business College in a typing class. Photo #3.
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      Miniature of Cathedral Grammar School
      Cathedral Grammar School
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        • Date Created: 1946
        • Description: 1946 photo of a geography lesson at the Cathedral Grammar School. Several groups of students focus on different activities in the classroom. Student art work is seen on the walls. Photo #32.
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        Miniature of Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
        Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
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          • Date Created: 1947
          • Description: 1947 Cathedral Grammar School music class. Students stand in a very narrow classroom filled with desks. A nun stands behind them. Photo #8.
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          Miniature of Portraits, children, unidentified
          Portraits, children, unidentified
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            • Description: Sunday School for a group of children engaged in cutting construction paper and working on a project. Taken in a building on Orchard Terrace, known as "The Pilgrim House", purchased by the First Congregational Church for Sunday School use. House demolished in 1960s to make way for new addition to the church. The children sit at tables. A woman leans over the children also helping with the cutting. The floor is carpeted, the blinds drawn at the two windows in the back. One little boy kneels near a doll house. Photo #9. See also mcalA14F16i31.
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            Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
            Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
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              • Date Created: 1947
              • Description: 1947 portrait drawing from life high school art class at Mount St. Mary's Academy, Burlington, Vt. Photo #27.
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              Miniature of Burlington Business College
              Burlington Business College
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                • Description: Classroom setting with male and female students of the Burlington Business College in a typing class. Photo #4.
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                Miniature of Burlington Business College
                Burlington Business College
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                  • Description: Classroom setting with students of the Burlington Business College working at electric calculating machines in a bookkeeping class. A mimeograph machine is seen in the back. Dated 1954.
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                  Miniature of Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
                  Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
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                    • Description: 1947 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students seated at their desks in their classroom. Photo #11.
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                    Miniature of Cathedral Grammar School
                    Cathedral Grammar School
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                      • Description: Undated classroom photo of Cathedral Grammar School students studying geography. Maps hang from the walls. Photo #24.
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