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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Kresge's (Burlington Store) - interiors
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- Description: Fall 1955. Boxed Christmas cards fill one counter as seen in this view of the interior of the S.S. Kresge Company department store #397 on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont. Overhead lights illuminate a wide variety of other merchandise on display during the store's remodeling sale.
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Portraits, groups, unidentified
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- Description: A uniformed group of young women with a single five point star on their caps carry small American flags and stand on the steps of the Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont. The troop's leader wears a different color cap but also carries a flag. Undated but may be 1920s or 1930s.
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Queen City Park, So. Burlington
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- Description: Photo of a large elegant three story building in Queen City Park, So. Burlington, Vermont. To the right is a covered carriage park area complete with a cupola type structure on top partially hidden by the surrounding trees.
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New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.
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- Date Created: 1950
- Description: 1950 photo of construction of New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. at 266 Main Street, Burlington, Vt. showing wood framing.
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Burlington Airport
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- Date Created: 1935-11-01 00:00:00
- Description: This 1935 photo shows a utility vehicle with driver applying seal coat on taxi strip at Burlington Municipal Airport using 1/4 gallon per square yard of Colas Quick Breaking Emulsion and sanding lightly. Hangar in the background. Date handwritten in bottom right corner "Nov. 1, 1935."
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Burlington Street Department Buildings - Construction of Building
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- Date Created: 1934-06-04
- Description: June 4, 1934. P.W.A. (Public Works Administration) Project Docket No. 2215 A picture taken during the street dept. central plant building construction of roof covering which was under the Johns-Manville Co. supervision and protected by their guarantee.
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Camp Marycrest (Grand Isle, VT)
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- Description: A group session seems to be progress on the porch of the grand building at Camp Marycrest (1957-1993) located in Grand Isle, Vermont. Some of the older girl campers participate in a discussion and a few raise their hands. Maybe taken in the 1950s.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington City Hall
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- Date Created: 1927-09-02 00:00:00
- Description: Scaffolding surrounds the cupola of Burlington City Hall in this dated September 2, 1927 photo. Three different types of automobiles (truck, car, longer car) are parked in front. Sawhorses and other construction materials seen to the left.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Airport
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- Date Created: 1941-10-11 00:00:00
- Description: City of Burlington, Vermont - Municipal Airport Photo dated Oct 11, 1944. This view shows the completed foundation walls with grading inside and outside of the foundation walls nearly completed ready to receive the metal hangar shown in position where it has been moved from its original location. This view was taken from the roof of the transformer building just westerly of the new location of the metal hangar. Note the truck dumping filling in the foreground, also the bulldozer leveling filling and 2 ton tandem roller compacting filling inside of walls.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington City Hall Park
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- Date Created: 1938-06-04 00:00:00
- Description: June 4, 1938. Groundskeepers with truck working in City Hall Park near fountain with City Hall in the background
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs