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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81 Burlington (Vt.). 33 Street photography. 30 Construction projects. 29 Burlington (Vt.) Dept. of Streets. 23 Business. 23 Construction workers. 15 Buildings. 14 Snowplows. 12 Fort Ethan Allen (Vt.). 10 Snow removal. 9 Military supplies. 8 Employees. 8 Snowblowers. 6 Men. 6 Service stations. 5 Burlington International Airport. 5 Camping. 5 Shelburne (Vt.). 4 Animals. 4 Automobiles. 4 Camp Marycrest (Vt.). 4 Grand Isle (Vt.). 4 Landscape photography. 4 Portrait photography. 4 Steamboats. 4 Ticonderoga (Steamship). 3 Camp MacArthur (Vt.). 3 Girls. 3 Stores, Retail. 3 Tractors. 3 Urban parks. 3 Waitsfield (Vt.). 2 Advertising. 2 Architectural photography. 2 Banners. 2 Boys. 2 Burlington Asphalt Plant (Burlington, Vt.). 2 Ethan Allen Firing Range (Vt.). 2 High school students. 2 Housing. 2 Parades. 2 Railroad tracks. 2 Refuse and refuse disposal. 2 Traffic accidents. 2 University of Vermont. 2 Vermont Structural Steel Corporation. 2 Waste disposal sites. 2 Winooski (Vt.). 2 Wreckers (Vehicles). 1 Airplanes. 1 Billboards. 1 Burlington City Hall (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Burlington High School (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Church buildings. 1 City Hall Park (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Department stores. 1 Dwellings. 1 Edmunds Elementary School (Burlington, Vt.). 1 G.S. Blodgett Corporation. 1 High school buildings. 1 Horses. 1 Hospitals. 1 Johnson (Vt.). 1 Machinery. 1 Mary Fletcher Hospital (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Military weapons. 1 Shelburne Museum. 1 Soldiers. 1 St. Albans (Vt.). 1 Street-railroad tracks. 1 Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.). 1 Theaters. 1 Tractors -- Equipment and supplies. 1 Trailers. 1 Veterans. 1 Young men. 1 Young women.

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Miniature of Scrap Metal Collection
Scrap Metal Collection
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    • Date Created: 1945
    • Description: 1945 - Scrap Metal Collection - A man with a power shovel has a scoopful of scrap metal near a partially filled truck. Initials on the truck's door read, "C.R. Co." Another man stands in the truck bed with shovel, two others look on.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester
    Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester
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      • Description: A military vehicle with various tools displayed on the running board for changing a tire and vehicle maintenance. Among them are jack, tire pump, hammer, pliers, screw driver, wrench, and oil can. 7th F.A. (Field Artillery) Btry.D. on side of truck.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
      Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
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        • Date Created: 1947-1948
        • Description: 1947 or 1948 photo of members of the VFW Squirrel Club, assembled on and around a flat-bed truck, either before or after a parade in Burlington. Location is outside of the First Unitarian Universalist Society church at 152 Pearl Street (head of Church Street Marketplace), Burlington, Vt. They are part of the Military Order of the Cootie (MOC), an organization within VFW that seeks to have fun while also visiting the sick and disabled in veterans hospitals and elsewhere. The MOC motto is displayed on the side of the truck: "Keep 'Em Smiling in Beds of White."
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Business Enterprises - C-D
        Business Enterprises - C-D
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          • Description: Photo of a truck belonging to Central Vermont Railway of St. Albans, Vermont providing railway and highway coordinated service.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
          Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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            • Date Created: 1955-03-08
            • Description: March 8, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga makes it way along double railroad tracks to the Shelburne Museum. W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire oversees the boat's overland journey. The truck bears the company's signs as does the side of the paddle-boat. Photo 144.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
            Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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              • Date Created: 1955-02-09
              • Description: February 9, 1955. A truck belonging to the W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire is seen between the double railroad tracks in front of the steamship Ticonderoga. The company was subcontracted by Merritt-Chapman & Scott to oversee the boat's overland journey from Shelburne Bay to the Shelburne Museum. Photo 127.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Sewer Projects
              Sewer Projects
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                • Description: November 24, 1939. A dump truck deposits its load at a sewer project site as crew members work nearby. Other trucks and machinery seen.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Burlington Airport
                Burlington Airport
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                  • Date Created: 1941-10-11 00:00:00
                  • Description: City of Burlington, Vermont - Municipal Airport Photo dated Oct 11, 1944. This view shows the completed foundation walls with grading inside and outside of the foundation walls nearly completed ready to receive the metal hangar shown in position where it has been moved from its original location. This view was taken from the roof of the transformer building just westerly of the new location of the metal hangar. Note the truck dumping filling in the foreground, also the bulldozer leveling filling and 2 ton tandem roller compacting filling inside of walls.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Burlington City Hall Park
                  Burlington City Hall Park
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                    • Date Created: 1938-06-04 00:00:00
                    • Description: June 4, 1938. Groundskeepers with truck working in City Hall Park near fountain with City Hall in the background
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Burlington Streets: Staniford Road
                    Burlington Streets: Staniford Road
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                      • Date Created: 1942-10-01
                      • Description: October 1, 1942. Photo No. 12. This view of Staniford Road shows the method of applying water to the base after the base has been thoroughly dry mixed. This equipment is a Standard Kinney Jr. Asphalt Distributor of six hundred (600) gallon capacity. The water is being applied under maximum pressure and followed immediately with the Killifer Spring-Tooth Cultivator and the twenty inch (20") disc harrow.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs