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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Burlington High School Faculty
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- Description: Formal portrait of faculty members of Burlington High School's English Dept. Standing: Miss Ruth Jones, Mr. Landman, Mrs. Iversen, Mr. Jay, Principal Holland "Dutch" Smith (with the Burlington school system beginning in 1929, BHS principal 1950-1964). Seated: Mr. Newton, Miss Urie, Mrs. Offensend, Miss White, Miss Goodwin, Miss Allen, Mr. Offensend, Mr. John "Jack" Hart. Photo appears in BHS yearbook Oread 1954, p. 13.
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Burlington High School Groups
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- Date Created: 1953-1954
- Description: 1953/1954 Burlington High School photographer, Roger Baker, with camera and flash bulb attachment gets ready to take a photo of Miss Cora Hutchins, a Burlington High School senior high counselor, holding a telephone receiver and seated at a wooden desk in a school office. A drawer of index cards are on the desk. Behind may be a mimeograph machine. Taken in the Edmunds High School building. A cropped version of this photo appears on p. 20 of BHS yearbook Oread 1954.
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Burlington Streets: Scarff Ave.
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- Description: Undated photograph. Original caption reads: WPA Highway Construction. A view looking west along Scarff Avenue from a point west of the intersection of Scarff Avenue and Wells Street.
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American Legion
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- Description: American Legion building. Listed in the city and telephone directories as being on Malletts Bay Ave. in Winooski in the 1940s. The large painted brick building is seen here adorned with patriotic buntings and banners. 1945/1947?
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Cathedral High School - Rifle Club
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- Date Created: 1945-04
- Description: A photograph of the Cathedral High School Rifle Club that is dated April 1945.
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Champlain Transportation Co. - Misc
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- Date Created: 1936
- Description: 1936 photo of six men in business suits standing along side a Champlain Transportation Company ferry.
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Christ the King Church
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- Date Created: 1953
- Description: 1953 gathering of parishioners from Christ the King Church, location unknown. Rev. Charles A. Towne is seated at the center of the rear table. Wall mural seen in back. Photo #3.
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Christ the King School
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- Description: School marching band in uniform and in chalice shaped formation. Majorettes in the foreground. The Rev. Benjamin Wysolmerski stands to the right. Flag bearer is foreground center. Undated.
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Christ the King School
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- Description: School marching band in uniform and in chalice shaped formation. Majorettes in the foreground. The Rev. Benjamin Wysolmerski stands to the right. Flag bearer is foreground center. Undated.
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Christ the King School - Confirmation
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- Description: Young men and women from the Christ the King Parish posing with Rev. Charles A Towne and other clergy in a photograph commemorating their receiving the Catholic sacrament of confirmation. Photograph is dated 1948-1949. Seated terrier dog with head in profile sits front center. Photo #2.
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