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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Camp Abnaki
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- Description: Undated photo of three rows of young men and older adults near a stone wall on the grounds of Camp Abnaki, a boys' resident summer camp in North Hero, Vermont on the shores of Lake Champlain owned by the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). Photo #6.
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Camp Kill Kare
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- Description: Photo #7 of boys and counselors gathered for a group portrait on the grounds of Kamp Kill Kare once located (1906-1966) on Hathaway Point in St. Albans Bay, Vermont. Camp later became Kill Kare State Park.
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Camp Marycrest (Grand Isle, VT)
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- Description: Undated portrait photo no. 32 of nuns, a priest and young women standing and seated on the grounds of Camp Marycrest in Grand Isle, Vermont. The girls' camp was run by the Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic Order and operated from 1957 to 1963. May date from the 1950s or 1960s.
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Christ the King School, Burlington
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- Description: Msgr. Fitzsimons (left) gathered with several formally dressed young women and a small boy and girl. They stand before a statue of the Virgin Mary in a chapel. Photo #2. Undated but may be 1950s.
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Circus People
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- Description: Portrait photo of a lady of the circus standing outside a tent wearing a large floral arrangement in her hair. Same lady as seen in mcalA09F08i05, 06, 07, 08, 09 and 10. May be 1940s-50s? at the Champlain Valley Fair.
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Circus People
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- Description: Portrait photo of a lady of the circus standing outside a tent. Same lady as seen in mcalA09F08i05, 06, 07 and 08. May be 1940s-50s at the Champlain Valley Fair.
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Congregational Church, First - Groups
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- Description: Photo of what looks to be two young people's choirs. Older youth in the back row and younger children in the front stand in the church sanctuary. Undated but may be 1950s.
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Congregational Church, First - Groups
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- Description: Rev. Dr. Charles Stanley Jones with Mrs. Vera Jones. Rev. Jones was the minister of the church in the mid 1950s. No date or identification on the photo.
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Crown Point Bridge (Lake Champlain)
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- Description: Crown Point Bridge located in New York state is seen to the left. The Champlain Memorial Lighthouse is to the far right. Undated. Photo 3.
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Crown Point, New York
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- Description: Crown Point Memorial Dock with the Champlain Memorial Lighthouse. Circa 1912. Lake Champlain.
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