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 Streets: Main Street (Upper)
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- Date Created: 1938-04-20
- Description: April 20, 1938 view of city street crew working on road construction of upper Main Street below Willard Street. The street has been dug up and resurfacing material laid down. A dump truck can be seen further down the hill. Elm trees line both sides of the street.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Main Street (Upper)
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- Date Created: 1938-05-26
- Description: May 26, 1938 view of Main Street near the intersection of South Union Street looking east up the hill showing smooth surfaced road. On the far right is a corner of Edmunds High School (Burlington High School). Earlier and later models of parked cars are seen on both sides of the street.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Main Street (Upper)
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- Description: Date may be September 1, 1933. Caption on photo reads "#1-9-1-33 Main Street looking west from City Limits before street widening and resurfacing." To the far right is town line sign for Burlington and So. Burlington. Several other photos show this repaving projects including mcalA05F15i09, i10, i15, i23, i24, i26, i29.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Main Street (Lower)
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- Date Created: 1943-05-05
- Description: May 5, 1943. Trolley track Rail Removal Project by crew members of the Burlington street dept. Burlington, Vermont. This view looking west towards City Hall (seen in the upper right corner) shows the rails being removed from Main Street in front of the U.S. Post Office where a hot-mix asphalt pavement had been constructed over the top of the rails to a depth of 2 to 3 inches. On the left further down the street is the sign for the Hotel Vermont.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Main Street (Lower)
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- Date Created: 1929-09-01
- Description: Sept. 1, 1929. View of Main Street looking east up the hill from intersection of Church Street. Note the old trolley car tracks and overhead wires, also uneven and worn condition of the old brick pavement. This picture was taken just before constructing the new asphalt pavement by the city street dept., using the old brick pavement as a base. Parked cars and businesses line both sides of the street. On the right is the Strong Theatre with a sign along one side of the building advertising "Vermont home of Chilton Paint Co." In the distant center of photo a car cruises through the intersection of Main and South Winooski Ave.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Morse Place
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- Description: Original caption reads: W.P.A. Highway Construction. A view looking east along Morse Place showing the road bed already prepared and a portion of the telford base in place. This photograph was taken from a point east of the intersection of Pine Street and Morse Place.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: North Ave
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- Date Created: 1931-08-04
- Description: Photograph dated Aug. 4, 1931, showing a work crew removing debris during the project when the hill side north of Institute Road on North Avenue was scaled back.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Pine St.
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- Date Created: 1944-09-15
- Description: September 15, 1944. Pine Street Project, D.A. - W.I. No. 4, Burlington, Vermont. (Defense Area - War Industry No. 4) This project financed by the Federal Government as an Access Highway to a Defense Plant was handled and supervised through the Vermont State Highway Department. The construction work was done under contract by D. W. Overocker, General Contractor of Burlington, Vermont. The Pine Street Section of the Project consisted primarily of: - (a) Furnished and placed gravel base approximately 12 inches in depth over the entire length of this section from Howard Street to Flynn Ave. (b) Excavating sections near the intersection of Howard Street including the railroad crossing, the intersection of Lakeside Ave. and the intersection at Flynn Ave. where-ever the old pavement would not permit a minimum depth of 12 inches. (c) Furnishing and installing drainage pipes and constructing catch basins and cross culverts for surface drainage. (d) Constructing 3 inch mixed-in-place asphalt pavement 24 feet in width with 5 foot gravel shoulder on either side. (e) Reconstructing railroad crossing to Tuletex Plant (at expense of E. B. and A. C. Whiting Co.). This view shows item (e) railroad crossing during construction. Note 12 inch depth of forms placed on top of surface of old pavement and new rails and ties placed on top of old crossing which was left in place. Concrete was poured in one pouring with 12 inch depth. Note extra rail placed inside of main rail for flanfe protection. This view was taken at the intersection of the center line of the crossing with the westerly sidewalk. Note that the track has been raised at this point to allow for constructing the new track above the old crossing which was left in place as the old concrete street crosing extended.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Prospect Street
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- Date Created: 1931-04-25
- Description: April 25, 1931. South Prospect Street near UVM's Redstone Campus as indicated by the stone wall at the left. A shovel lays on the green belt to the left and a sawhorse to the right. In the distance appear to be men working in the road near a parked truck.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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- Date Created: 1931-04-23
- Description: April 23, 1931. View of Riverside Ave during resurfacing of the street by the city street dept. Homes line both sides of the street. A lone road construction lantern (flare) rests by the rest of the road.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs