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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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1952-10
- Description: Dated October 1952. Photo of students at Winooski High School "hanging" in front of the school entrance. (Perhaps an arranged "candid" shot?)
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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1952-10
- Description: October 1952. [see dated photo mcalB22F25i08] "Candid" moment of students socializing in front of Winooski High School.
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Winooski High School - Class Pictures
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- Date Created: 1952-10
- Description: Oct. 1952 photo of a student and the school guidance counselor, who is pointing at a pamphlet titled "Engineering As A Career." This may have been taken for the school yearbook, along with the other class photos.
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Wakes
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- Description: Casket, possibly for an infant, surrounded wreathes.
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Wakes
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- Description: Wake, with open casket and flowers.
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Wakes
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- Description: Wake, with the deceased in open casket decorated with flowers.
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War Bond Campaign
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- Description: Store window display promoting the sale of War Bonds and American values, as expressed in the "Four Freedoms" paintings by Norman Rockwell. Other items on display have some connection to World War II and the war effort.
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War Bond Campaign
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 photo of several men standing in front of a Railway Express Agency (REA) truck while one points at publicity for the 3rd War Bond campaign. Identity of men unknown, but they are very likely administrators and employees of REA, which had headquarters at 111 St. Paul St., Burlington.
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Weddings
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- Date Created: 1937
- Description: 1937 bride and groom as they exit a building with massive stone pillars. He is in military uniform. Fellow officers seen behind.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary in uniform, which includes a light-colored dress, garrison cap (with Post no. 782 visible), and white gloves.
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