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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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: Mother and child seen in mcalB14F16i04.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945-1946
- Description: Ca. 1945 indoor photo of four generations in one family.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo of 7 family members, two of whom are service men in uniform. Taken perhaps after the War?
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 indoor photo of a mother holding her child, with other family members present. See also mcalB14F16i04.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of at least three family generations, including one service man and a retired Navy man (holding young girl; Joanne Raymond, grandniece?). Taken at McAllister's home in his driveway. Present is his nephew and his wife.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of family seen in mcalB14F18i07: 2 parents, 3 adult children. Photo #3
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 indoor photo of a woman holding a young girl.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: A family gathered in their living room at Christmas (evergreens on the fireplace mantel and tree to far right). An older man and woman sit on a sofa with their daughter (?) and three grown sons(?) standing behind, each in the military. Photo #8. Dated 1945.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 outdoor photo of 2 women and 7 men, same Farm Bureau group seen in mcalB14F24i11.
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Portraits - Family
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- Date Created: 1947-1948
- Description: Ca. 1947 indoor photo (slightly damaged on right) of a family of six: parents (2nd & 3rd from left), a son, and three daughters.
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