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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Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
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- Date Created: 1941
- Description: 1941 class portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy located Burlington, Vt. in school uniforms. Photo #12.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
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- Date Created: 1941
- Description: 1941 class portrait of Mount St. Mary's Academy students assembled outside on a grassy spot with a religious statue. Photo #14.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Trinity College - Buildings & Interiors
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- Description: Corner of a chapel with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with drapery in the background and flowers. Banister pattern matches the one seen in mcalA18F05i23, so perhaps this is a corner in the same chapel.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Morrill, Justin Smith, Bust
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of a marble sculptured bust of Justin Smith Morrill made by Italian born artist Preston Powers.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mount St. Mary's Academy - Sodality
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 photo of students of the Sodality Council of Mount St. Mary's, a private Catholic girls' school, assembled for a formal group photo. Members are demonstrating their activities, such as placing flowers before sacred statues; reading from a sodality publication "The Queen's Work"; and creating inspirational posters. The academy was located on Mansfield Ave. in Burlington, Vermont. Sodalities were lay organizations dedicated to personal piety and service to others. Photo #12.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mt. St. Mary's Convent
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- Date Created: 1955
- Description: Sister of Mercy kneeling before a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To her right is a somewhat 2-dimensional likeness of a devout person praying the rosary and holding a candle. Dated 1955.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mt. St. Mary's Convent
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- Date Created: 1948
- Description: Large group of young women interested in a religious vocation with the Sister of Mercy (postulants), gathered before a statue of Christ revealing the Sacred Heart. Photo #4. Dated 1948.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mt. St. Mary's Convent
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- Date Created: 1960
- Description: Six Sisters of Mercy gathered before a shrine dedicated to Mary, Queen of the Assumption. These women may still be in the novitiate, or celebrating the end of it. Location is unknown but presumably on the grounds of Mount St. Mary's. Photo #26. Dated 1960.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mount St. Mary's Academy - Sodality
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- Date Created: 1948
- Description: 1948 photo of students of the Sodality Council of Mount St. Mary's, a private Catholic girls' school, assembled for a formal group photo. They wear necklaces (religious medallions?). School was located on Mansfield Ave. in Burlington, Vermont. Sodalities were lay organizations dedicated to personal piety and service to others. The priest in this photo may be the Rev. Barry E. Fontaine of the Catholic diocese of Burlington. The statue of Christ displays the Sacred Heart, and some of the "sodalists" have flowers to decorate the shrine. Photo #1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs