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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Shelburne Museum
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- Description: Shelburne Museum. Schoolhouse near a pond on the museum grounds.
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Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
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- Description: A group of men and women, possibly students of a local beauty salon or cosmetology school gather for a group photo.
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Portraits, groups
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- Description: Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. A group of men and women, students of a local beauty salon or cosmetology school gather for a group photo.
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Shelburne Shipyard
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- Description: Photo of the heavy chains part of the machinery that maneuvers the heavy boats at the Shelburne Shipyard.
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Shelburne Shipyard
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- Description: View while on the cradle hauled out on track looking toward the Marine Railway building at the Shelburne Shipyard. Undated but late 1920s, early 1930?
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Shelburne Shipyard
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- Description: Is this the underside of the steamboat Vermont with a view of its paddlewheel in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard? See also mcalA18F16i06 for another view.
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Vermont Industrial School Band [Vergennes]
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- Date Created: 1933-07-07
- Description: July 7, 1933. Vermont's Best Boys Band of 1933. Taken in front of the Graham Cottage at Vermont Industrial School, Vergennes, Vermont. Photo #3.
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Vermont Transit Co.
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- Date Created: 1935
- Description: 1935. Photo of a Vermont Transit Co. bus at the bus barn, Riverside Ave, Burlington, Vermont. White Motor Company, deluxe model. On the side of the bus is the route that it made. The VTC logo is also seen. An open rack on the top of the bus to the rear for luggage.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Vermont Structural Steel
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- Date Created: 1951
- Description: 1951 Interior view of the Vermont Structural Steel plant on 207 Flynn Ave, Burlington, Vermont.
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Vermont Structural Steel
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- Description: View of the framing of a metal structural building with an automobile (convertible (?) with white wall tires) parked in front. 1951.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs