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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Knights of Columbus
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 portrait photo of a large group of Knights of Columbus members dressed in tuxedos and wearing sashes or neck insignias. Several members are priests and sit in the front row
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Landscapes - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1930
- Description: 1930s photo of a muddy and deeply rutted dirt road along side a barn and other buildings in the distance.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Landscapes - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 unidentified winter landscape photo of a snow covered dirt road. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
L.L. McAllister - Family Portraits
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- Date Created: 1930
- Description: 1930s McAllister family portrait. L. L. McAllister absent in this exposure. Two family dogs included; a chihuahua and a collie. Taken at the McAllister home 47 No. Winooski Ave, Burlington. See also mcalA12F12i03
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Machinery
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- Description: Close-up photo of a part of a machine. Dated 1949 / 1950.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mary Fletcher Hospital - Construction
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 Construction of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim Mead & White. Builders Vermilya-Brown Co., Inc.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mary Fletcher Hospital - Construction
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 construction of Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim, Mead & White. Builders Vermilya Brown Co., Inc.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mary Fletcher Hospital - Construction
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 Construction of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. Architects McKim Mead & White. Builders Vermilya-Brown Co., Inc.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
May Crowning
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 portrait photo of women and young girls standing in what may be a chapel as they take part in May Crowning, a traditional Roman Catholic ritual that occurs in the month of May whereby an image or likeness of the Blessed Virgin is ceremonially crowned recognizing her as Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Middlebury College - Groups, Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 group portrait of women outside in front of the Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Photo #4.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs