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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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Description: Undated (Oct. 1952?) photo of what appears to be a home economics class at Winooski High School, with stylish bobby-soxers in aprons cooking, and washing and drying dishes. A poster on the right proclaims: IT'S FUN TO SEW.
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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Description: Undated photo (Oct. 1952?) of students in a classroom at Winooski High School. History? Civics? The unfinished portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart hangs just above the blackboard. Photo #16.
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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.
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Trinity College - Groups
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 photo of Trinity College students (members of the international club?) lined up for a photo with their faculty or student leader. Photo #21.
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Mt. St. Mary's Convent - Music
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- Date Created: 1958
- Description: 1958 photo of nuns of Mount St. Mary's Convent gathered together with their music director for a music making session. Phonograph records, record players, bells and other musical instruments lie on a table in the foreground. Photo #3. Religious orders represented here include the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of Charity of Providence (with the balloon-shaped headdress), and perhaps a third, wearing the white habit and black veil. One sister holds a poster with number sequences that correspond to familiar note patterns, including "do-re-mi," the musical scale, and the arpeggio.
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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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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.
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Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
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- Date Created: 1941
- Description: 1941 high school art class with some younger students in attendance at Mount St. Mary's Academy, Burlington, Vt.
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Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
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- Date Created: 1954
- Description: 1954 science class at Mount St. Mary's Academy with the girls studying human anatomy. Charts on the wall display the structure of the human eye and the digestive system. A nun stands nearby. Long bench student desks in foreground. Photo #20.
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Cathedral Grammar School
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- Description: 1946 photo of Cathedral Grammar School students assembled for a group picture in a classroom, dressed for First Communion. Several hold special objects. Baskets of flowers are placed between the two groups.
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