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: 1957
- Description: 1957 class photo of Cathedral High School students assembled in the school gymnasium. Photo #8.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1959
- Description: 1959 photo of students, priests and nuns standing outside on the steps of the Cathedral High School in Burlington, Vermont for a class picture.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: Fall-Summer 1957 photo of Cathedral High School students gathered in the school gymnasium for a group picture. Photo #7
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Band
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- Date Created: 1942
- Description: 1942 photo of the Cathedral High School marching band, with bandmaster Dr. Joseph Lechnyr (d. 1959), assembled in front of the Pearl St. entrance of the high school. Photo #1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Baseball
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- Date Created: 1949/1950
- Description: 1949-1950 photo of the Cathedral High School uniformed baseball team standing outside on the steps of the school. Some players hold baseball gloves. Glass plate negative appears cracked. Same boys as seen in mcalB06F26i10.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Cathedral High School boys' basketball team. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of Cathedral High School girls' basketball team in the school gymnasium. Photo #28.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1953
- Description: 1953 photo of Cathedral High School boys' basketball team in the school gymnasium. Photo #6.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Cheerleaders
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- Description: Boys of the Cathedral High School cheerleading squad posing on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Photograph is dated 1952.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Camera Club
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- Description: Another pose for a portrait of the Cathedral High School Camera Club taken on the steps of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The photograph is dated 1946. Photo #19.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs