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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Camp Birchcliffe Activities
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 Game of baseball at Camp Birchcliffe in Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #5.
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Camp Holy Cross (Colchester, VT)
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- Date Created: 1957/1958
- Description: 1957/1958. Group photo of campers at Camp Holy Cross in Colchester, Vermont. Staff? Photo #2.
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Camp Marycrest - Activities
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: Summer 1945. Campers swim, dive and stand on the dock in Lake Champlain while at Camp Marycrest, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #6.
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Camp Marycrest - Activities
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- Date Created: 1947
- Description: 1947 Tennis at Camp Marycrest, Grand Isle, Vermont. Photo #42.
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Camps - Summer
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: Summer, Fall 1945 photo of a camp building with several young women sitting on the porch railing, the steps and stranding on the lawn in front. Photo #10?
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Camp Marycrest - Theatricals
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- Description: Undated photo of a play performed outdoors at Camp Marycrest near porch of the main building.
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Camps - Summer
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- Description: Fall-Winter 1946/1947 photo of men, women, children and youth standing and sitting outside on the grass. Photo #2.
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Cathedral Grammar School
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students sitting at their desks reading their science books. Many pictures of plants adorn the classroom. Photo #25.
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Camps - Summer
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- Date Created: 1957/1958
- Description: 1957/1958 photo of a boy checking an instrument at a weather shelter.
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Cathedral Grammar School
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students sitting at their desks in their classroom.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs