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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Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 Cathedral High School girls' basketball team in the school gymnasium. Photo #32.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1946
- Description: 1946 Cathedral High School boys' Junior Varsity basketball team. Photo #1.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Bristol School -Basketball
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- Date Created: 1944
- Description: 1944 Bristol girls' basketball team in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. One girl holds a plush panda bear mascot (with one eye?). Photo #23.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Bristol School -Basketball
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- Date Created: 1945/1946
- Description: 1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team stand in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #3.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Bristol School -Basketball
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- Date Created: 1945/1946
- Description: 1945-1946 Bristol School boys' basketball team with coaches in front of the old high school, Bristol, Vermont. Photo #29
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Cathedral High School - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 Cathedral High School girls' basketball team in the school gymnasium pose for a group picture. Photo #22.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Hi-Y Clubs
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- Description: Burlington Junior Hi-Y Club boys' basketball team 1944-1945 with coaches. Photo #3.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Hi-Y Clubs
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- Description: Grammar boys' basketball team of the Burlington Hi-Y Club 1945. Photo #2.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Bristol School -Basketball
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- Description: 1945-1946 Bristol School girls' basketball team in front of the old high school with coach in Bristol, Vermont. One girl holds a large plush panda bear mascot dressed in team uniform. Photo #18.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Mt. St. Mary's - Basketball
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- Date Created: 1961
- Description: 1961 photo of Mt St Mary's basketball team dressed in school uniforms posing for a group portrait outside on the lawn near a corner of the school building. Photo #16.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs