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.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #14.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1945-04
- Description: April 1945 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled on bleachers in the school gymnasium for a class picture. Photo #14.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1948/1949
- Description: Summer-Spring 1948-1949 photo of Cathedral High School students with a priest and a nun gathered on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for a class picture. Photo #6.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 photo of Cathedral High School students outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont for a class picture.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 group photo of Cathedral High School students and a faculty member. Probably taken for the school year book. Photo #22
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 class photo of Cathedral High School students assembled in the school gymnasium. Photo #6.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 group photo of female Cathedral High School students assembled in the school gymnasium. Photo #13.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of male Cathedral High School students standing outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vermont. One older woman stands to the far left. Photo #5.
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Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of male Cathedral High School students assembled in the school gymnasium for a group picture. School basketball team? Photo #45.
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Cathedral High School - Band
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- Date Created: 1942
- Description: 1942 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band, with bandmaster Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959) on the left, in parade formation at 114 Pearl St., in front of Mrs. Lottie Guertin's bakery. The First Unitarian Universalist Society church is in the background. High school would have been behind the photographer. Photo No. 6.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs