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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Middlebury College - Russian Summer School
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- Date Created: 1960
- Description: 1960 photo of faculty (and students?) at the Middlebury College Russian Summer School. Seated in the front row, l.-r., are: Nicolai Vorobiov, George Taskin, Nicholas Timasheff, Margaret and Mischa Fayer, Nicholas Poltoratzky, and Berthe Normano, executive secretary of the school. Photo #5.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Middlebury College - Summer School Groups - Unidentified
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 group photo of Middlebury College summer school students.
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Middlebury College - Summer School Groups - Unidentified
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- Description: Group of Middlebury College attendees, very likely graduate students or assistant faculty in one of the language schools. Dated 1960.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Military Equipment
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- Date Created: 1937
- Description: 1937 photo of a military vehicle identified 7th F.A. Btry. D equipped with a military insignia flag for the 7th division. (Field Artillery)
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Milton High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Milton High School class picture. Photo #?
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Milton High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Milton High School student class picture. Photo #22.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Milton High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Milton High School student class picture. Martha Helen Horican (2nd row from front, 3rd one in from left) Photo #25.
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Mt. St. Mary's - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1947
- Description: 1947 photo of members of the Mt St Mary's basketball team posing in the gymnasium with school banner. Photo #9.
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Mount St. Mary's Academy - Chorus
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 or 1957 portrait photo of the Mount St. Mary's Academy Chorus assembled outside on the steps of the school . Photo #10.
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Mount St. Mary's Academy - Classrooms
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- Date Created: 1947
- Description: 1947 photo of students of Mount St. Mary's Academy working on and displaying their art projects in class. The large painting to the left appears to have a nursery rhyme theme with images of Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Jack and the Bean Stalk and Mary, Mary Quite Contrary. Photo #29.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs