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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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: Eight young girls of various ages wear ho-down type outfits with straw hats and overalls. They stand on stage complete with their tap dance shoes. Date circa 1950s, Burlington, Vermont.
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: Four young girls give a salute as they stand in line wearing their dance recital outfits, caps, fishnet stockings and footwear covering their tap dance shoes. Left to right Dolores Maynard, Jean Fontaine, Donna Sousie, Karen Brown. Students of Lorette Sousie of the Lorette Sousie School of Dance. Girls are dong a military tap dance. Photo taken at 115 North Ave, Burlington, Vermont, location of the school. Date circa 1957-61. Photo 1.
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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: Seven young girls are dressed in hula dance recital outfits. They are barefoot and stand or kneel in a semi-circle. Date and location unknown.
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: Eight young ballerinas are grouped across a stage while they strike a pose in their dance recital outfits. A valance and curtain form a backdrop. Location Mount St. Mary's on Mansfield Ave, Burlington, Vermont. Circa 1954-1957. Photo 37
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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: Ten tap dance young ladies sit in a row of chairs with one leg bent resting on the chair seat, arm resting on the bent knee and head tossed back. Probably in a dance studio. Date and location unknown. Photo 3.
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Mt. St. Mary's - Theatricals
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- Date Created: 1961
- Description: Ballet dancers on stage at Mount St. Mary's Academy in 1961.
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Mt. St. Mary's - Theatricals
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- Date Created: 1961
- Description: Six young women ballerinas strike a pose on stage with a valance and curtain behind. One dancer executes a pose on the stage floor with arms and leg extended. Location is Mount St. Mary's Academy stage (100 Mansfield Ave, Burlington) Photo #34.
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Dance Recitals - Unidentified
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- Description: A young tap dancer strikes a pose in her dance recital outfit in front a a folding screen. Student of Lorette Sousie of the Lorette Sousie School of Dance, 115 North Ave, Burlington, Vermont. Circa 1957-61. Photo 21.
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: A young lady strikes a pose before a wall mirror in a dance studio dressed in her dance recital outfit and tap dance shoes. Location 115 North Ave, Burlington, Vermont, the location of the Lorette Sousie School of Dance owned by Lorette Sousie. Date circa 1957-61. Photo 29.
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Dance Recitals
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- Description: Seven young tap dancers line up and strike a pose in their Tyrolean style skirts, vests, short aprons and tap dance shoes. Students of Lorette Sousie of the Lorette Sousie School of Dance in Burlington, Vermont. Photo taken at 138 No. Winooski Ave in Burlington circa 1955-56. Photo 23.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs