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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Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: Display window at the Sherwin-Williams Paints store in Burlington, Vt.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Store Windows
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- Description: Western Union window display with baskets of flowers.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Store Windows
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- Description: Women's cosmetics window display showing a line of Daggett & Ramsdell beauty preparations. See also mcalA13F06i08
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Display of "Mello-Gloss" paint, which leaves a washable surface.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: Interior of Sherwin-Williams Paints store in Burlington, Vt. at 152 College St., in the block across from City Hall park. Long rectangular showroom with hardwood floors has wallpaper samples on the left side and displays of other products throughout the store.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Stores - Windows - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1953
- Description: "Here's the $64 Question" : Window display for pen & pencil sets uses "$64" question theme for a drawing to win a $64 pen & pencil set. Store name and location unknown. See also mcalB18F30i06.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
War Bond Campaign
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 photo of a rather cluttered window display promoting the 6th War Loan. Total amounts raised in the 6th War Loan were announced in early January, 1945, so much of the campaign coincided with the Christmas shopping season, which explains the "Peace on Earth" slogan and other decorations. The local or regional goal was to raise $2.4 million. Many slogans appear in this display, e.g. "On to Tokyo," "Let's finish the job!" "Let's go for the knock out blow," and "Your country is still at war. Are you?" intimating perhaps an element of complacency or overconfidence on the part of citizens. Name of store is unknown.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
War Bond Campaign
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of a store window display promoting war bonds ("Buy an Extra U.S. War Bond Now!") and heralding the 4th War Loan (or fund raising) campaign. The display also pays tribute to Poland ("a Nation Bathed in Blood") and the strength of the Polish people. One poster has "an open letter to the unconquerable (?) Poles."
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Stores - Sherwin-Williams Paints (Burlington, VT)
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Sherwin-Williams Paints window display and advertising for Pestroy (pest + destroy = Pestroy), DDT based insecticide seen in other photos. Ads proclaim the lethal effects of Pestroy in the home.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Stores - Interiors - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: Obviously a display for gloves but also for some unidentifiable products that promise some excitement. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the use of the word "dynamite" to indicate that something is powerful or impressive dates from the early 1940s.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs