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: 1945-04
- Description: April 1945 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled for a class picture. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1945-04
- Description: April 1945 photo of Cathedral High School students assembled for a class picture. Probably members of a school activity group and taken for the yearbook. Photo #26.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Band
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band, with bandmaster Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), assembled in front of the south entrance to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt. Photo #15.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Band
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band, assembled in front of the south entrance to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, Vt.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Cheerleaders
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- Description: Boys of the Cathedral High School cheerleading squad. Photograph is dated 1957. Photo #1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Theatricals
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- Date Created: 1955
- Description: 1955 Burlington High School student production, The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan. Complete write up in 1955 BHS Oread yearbook, p. 92.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
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- Date Created: 1956/1957
- Description: 1956/1957 portrait photo of students of a Cathechism religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #6.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Religion Classes
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- Description: Undated portrait photo of students of a Cathechism religion class outside on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photo #3.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Catholic Daughters of America
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 photo of children and youth dressed in costumes for a recital or a production by members of the Catholic Daughters of America. Photo #1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Champlain Transportation Co. - "The City of Burlington"
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- Date Created: 1936
- Description: 1936 close up broadside view of the Champlain Transportation Company "City of Burlington" ferry near the docking pilings. People are crowded on the boat's main deck and a few on an upper deck. Railroad cars seen in the background. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs