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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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo taken at Christmas of a mother with two young children playing with their new toys.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 photo of three children in front of their Christmas tree surrounded by gifts the family received. The two boys wear cowboy outfits. Their younger sister stands between them.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 photo of three children in front of their decorated Christmas tree surrounded by gifts the family received. The two boys sit on the floor and the elder holds his infant sibling. One toy is a drive in service station "Happy Time".
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Portraits, children, unidentified
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- Description: A group of young children (perhaps kindergarten age) are seen in their day care center (may be a church or nursery setting). They gather around tables, chairs, doll carriage and sand box. Two older women stand in back along with an older girl. See also mcalA14F16i32
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1959
- Description: Four children pose by their Christmas tree in the living room of their home. The two children seated on the floor each hold a toy; a metal spinning top and a doll. The boy standing in the back holds the family dog and the older girl proudly wears her "poodle" skirt with Scottie. See also mcalA14F15i19
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1946-1947
- Description: 1946 or 1947 photo of a young boy on a tricycle with Christmas tree and other presents. A Red Arrow wooden sled is against the wall and a toy train with tracks beneath the tree.
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Portraits - Children
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- Date Created: 1957-1958
- Description: 1957 or 1958 photo of two children standing in front of their Christmas tree surrounded by presents the family received. A baby carriage, dolls, a toy airplane, labeled box with air rifle outfit, a toaster and clothes are seen displayed. See also mcalB14F09i04
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo of woman and her two children at Christmastime. Several toys are present including a tricycle, Buddy metal truck, stuffed horse, doll and castle, but, alas, father is not.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo of four very excited children and their mother at Christmas time. A portrait of their father, very likely, is on the fireplace mantel (left) where stockings are hung. The girls each hold a doll, the little boy in a sailor suit may be holding a toy piano. Just visible to the left are tinker toys.
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Portraits, children, unidentified
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- Description: A group of young children sit in a classroom setting (perhaps a church school class as a small replica of a church is seen on the arm of a chair in the foreground) surrounded by paper cardboard building blocks of the 1950s. Three women attend the the boys and girls. A doll house among other toys are seen in the room. See also mcalA14F16i26
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