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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Burlington High School - Basketball
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- Description: 1945 BHS Girls Basketball team. Photo #3.
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Burlington High School - Basketball
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- Description: 1944 BHS girls basketball team Photo #2.
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Camp Abnaki - Staff
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- Description: 1946 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #3.
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Camp Abnaki - Staff
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- Description: 1946 photo of Camp Abnaki staff. Photo #5.
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Camp Abnaki - Campers and Families
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- Description: July 1944. Group photo of campers gathered around the totem pole in front of one of the main buildings at Camp Abnaki. Photo #37.
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Camp Abnaki - Miscellaneous
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- Description: July 1944 Vermont state YMCA photo exhibit at the Vermont Conference of Social Work displaying many photos by McAllister taken at the summer boys' camp, Camp Abnaki.
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Camp MacArthur (Waitsfield, VT)
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- Description: 1944 Two horses hitched to a fully loaded hay wagon standing in a field with four people on top.
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Camp Marycrest - Activities
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- Description: 1947 Volley ball at Camp Marycrest, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #4?
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Camp Birchcliffe
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- Description: July 1945 Adult campers sit on the rocky shoreline sharing a meal while two women in front serve up some food. Photo #25.
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Camp Birchcliffe Activities
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- Description: 1945 Women archers stroll through a field of flowers on their way to a building on the grounds of Camp Birchcliffe in Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #11.
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