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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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 indoor photo of a mother and her daughter who holds a composition doll with sleep eyes. See also mcalB14F14i09.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of an elderly couple. aken in the driveway on the side of McAllister's home at 47 No. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Garden trellis in the background. See also mcalB14F18i01
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of family, with father and sons (two in uniform) in the back row; mother and daughters in front.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 indoor photo of mother with child and other family members, as seen in mcalB14F16i04.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo of parents and their son in the Navy, from the family seen in mcalB14F18i09.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of couple with child (as seen in mcalB14F14i07) and an elderly lady, very likely the child's grandmother. Number 34 seen on the side of the house.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo of two service men (standing), their parents and sisters.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of parents (front) and grown children, as seen in mcalB14F18i07.
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Kresge's (Burlington Store) - exteriors, excavation, construction
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- Date Created: 1955
- Description: 1955, probable date. Completed construction of S.S. Kresge Company department store #397 on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont. Seen here is the cement block wall of the building. In the center background can be seen the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
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McAllister Portraits
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- Description: A formal portrait of Louis McAllister dressed in plaid suit jacket, matching vest and tie. He was a 50 year member of the Webster Masonic Lodge in Winooski, Vermont and wears a lapel pin. Photo may be late 1940s.
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