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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Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Date Created: circa 1951
- Description: Ca. 1951 photo promoting the VFW poppy sale as a fundraising token. A boy presents a poppy to a local dignitary (Mayor Moran of Burlington?) as two veterans look on.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Date Created: 1959
- Description: 1959 photo of a wreathe-laying ceremony at the VFW war memorial in Battery Park, very likely on Veterans Day. A lady in civilian clothing observes, standing apart from the crowd. She may be a survivor of Howard W. Plant, first Burlington World War I casualty, to whose memory the memorial is dedicated. A small crowd of veterans, citizens, and children has gathered at the site.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of a ceremony at Battery Park, Burlington, Vt., held perhaps on Veterans Day. The iron fence around the monument honoring Howard W. Plant is opened. A speaker (far right) addresses the crowd as VFW Ladies Auxiliary members hold American flags, which appear to be flapping in fairly stiff wind. The Brewer Bros. car dealership in the background now houses the Burlington Police Dept.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo showing a gathering of veterans and neighborhood children, probably on Veterans Day. An elderly gentleman (seen in mcalB21F12i01), standing at a microphone, is addressing the crowd. The location is Battery Park (DeSoto/Plymouth dealership seen on far left is Brewer Bros. at No. 1-9 North Ave., the north edge of Battery Park), and the crowd is facing the memorial placed there in memory of Howard W. Plant, "the first Burlington boy" to die in World War I.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Date Created: 1957
- Description: 1957 photo of 16 veterans (of World War II, most likely) at the VFW hall. This may be a get-together after a Veterans Day observance such as the one seen in mcalB21F12i02.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club : Squirrel Club
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- Date Created: 1947-1948
- Description: 1947 or 1948 photo of a parade float (made from a flatbed truck) with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars - Booster's Club Squirrel Club. Location outside of the First Unitarian Universalist Society church at 152 Pearl Street (head of Church Street Marketplace), Burlington, Vt.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 photo of a speaker (unidentified) addressing an audience gathered at a VFW Ladies Auxiliary event. A banner on the far right says Ladies Auxiliary Howard Plant Post 782 (VFW). (Howard W. Plant was the first "Burlington boy," as his memorial states, to die in World War I.)
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: Photo of a presentation of two oxygen tanks and other equipment in a container. Banner in the background reads "Ladies Auxiliary Howard Plant, Post No. 782, Burlington, Vermont, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States" Instituted June 1924.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- Description: A group of men, women and a younger woman gathered for a portrait.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Fort Ethan Allen (Colchester, VT)
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Summer, Fall, Winter A large group of servicemen with a few service women gathered for a portrait photo. A Coca-Cola poster hangs on the wall in the corner.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs