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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Miniature of Trinity College - Groups
Trinity College - Groups
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    • Date Created: 1956
    • Description: 1956 photo of Trinity College students seated in a classroom, prepared to write. Titles of three rosary prayers are written on the blackboard.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Trinity College - Groups
    Trinity College - Groups
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      • Date Created: 1949
      • Description: 1949 Trinity College students in a lab course, using microscopes. Instructor perhaps the woman on left in daisy print dress.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Burlington Business College
      Burlington Business College
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        • Description: Classroom setting with women students at the Burlington Business College in 1942. They sit two at a shared wooden desk aligned in rows.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
        Cathedral Grammar School [Prints]
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          • Date Created: 1947
          • Description: 1947 photo of a Cathedral Grammar School music class. A nun plays the piano in the front of the narrow classroom filled with nearly 40 students as they sit at their desks holding music books. Photo #7.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
          Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
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            • Date Created: 1946
            • Description: 1946 group of Mount St. Mary's Academy high school students carving linoleum art blocks. Prints from the blocks can be seen hanging up behind the girls. Location may be a library as rows of books are seen in bookcases along the back wall. Photo #3.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
            Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
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              • Description: A Sister of Mercy nun teaches elementary school children a math lesson as they stand at the black board at Mount St. Mary's Academy in this 1955 photograph. Photo #4.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Mt. St. Mary's Convent - Music
              Mt. St. Mary's Convent - Music
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                • Date Created: 1958
                • Description: 1958 photo of nuns of Mount St. Mary's Convent seated in the auditorium for a music session. Religious orders represented here include the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of Charity of Providence (with the balloon-shaped headdress). Photo #2.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Theatricals
                Theatricals
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                  • Date Created: 1959
                  • Description: 1959 Christmas pageant photo at an elementary Catholic school taken in the classroom. Virgin Mary holds a Baby Jesus and is surrounded by kings, angels, and shepherds (with a lamb). School desks seen in front. Blackboard behind with theme garland strung across it.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Portraits - Unidentified Groups
                  Portraits - Unidentified Groups
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                    • Date Created: 1957-1958
                    • Description: 1957 or 1958 photo of what may be a high school vocational workshop class. Adult instructor stands to the far left while boys work the woodworking machines.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Burlington Business College
                    Burlington Business College
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                      • Description: Classroom setting with both male and female students of the Burlington Business College in typing class,1942. Posters on the wall show the Underwood and Royal brand of typewriters.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs