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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    • Date Created: 1945
    • Description: 1945 photo of dairy cows grazing in a pasture with a barn and other farm buildings in background. Photo #5.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Farms
    Farms
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      • Description: View of a farm with white farmhouse and barn and garden plot. A dirt road with utility poles and lines runs in front of the house.
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      Miniature of Farms - Haying
      Farms - Haying
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        • Date Created: 1951
        • Description: 1951 photo of a hay field with farm workers driving a tracker and cut hay being sent through a shoot and into a hay wagon.
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        Miniature of Farms - Livestock
        Farms - Livestock
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          • Date Created: 1945
          • Description: 1945 photo of a farm with dairy cows in a pasture, farm buildings seen in the background and a man on a horse to the far right.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Farms - Haying
          Farms - Haying
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            • Date Created: 1945
            • Description: 1945 photo of a horse drawn plow cutting hay with a barn and other farm buildings in the background.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Farms - Livestock
            Farms - Livestock
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              • Date Created: 1944
              • Description: 1944 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coop with a barn and other farm buildings in background.
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              Miniature of Farms - Livestock
              Farms - Livestock
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                • Date Created: 1930
                • Description: 1930 photo of a mare and her foal standing outside near a cultivated field.
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                Miniature of Farms - Haying
                Farms - Haying
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                  • Description: Undated photo of a farmhand riding horse driven hay cutting machinery.
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                  Miniature of Farms
                  Farms
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                    • Description: View of a farm across a meadow includes barn, farmhouse, and other farm buildings. A dirt road with utility poles and lines cuts between the farmhouse and the barn.
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                    Miniature of Farms
                    Farms
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                      • Description: View of a wooded hillside across a valley in which there are a house and a farm. There is excavating equipment and excavation is being done. In the foreground are piles of earth and the stumps of cut trees.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs