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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Mary Fletcher Hospital - Nursing
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 group portrait of nursing staff at the Mary Fletcher Hospital. Are these volunteer Candy Stripers? Photo #4.
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Marble Island (Lake Champlain Club?) Colchester, VT
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- Description: White building with clerestory windows in landscape. Marble Island (Lake Champlain Club?) Colchester, VT See also mcalA01F17i07 and mcalB10F25i03. Undated.
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May Crowning
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- Date Created: 1945
- Description: 1945 group portrait of participants in the Roman Catholic observance of May Crowning. Photo #1.
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Middlebury College - French Summer School
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- Date Created: 1959
- Description: 1959 photo of the Middlebury College French Summer School Faculty. Among the senior faculty seated in the front row: Mme Moissu, Claude Bourcier, M. Guilloton, and Stephen Freeman, longtime professor of French, administrator, and historian of the Summer Language Schools. Enrollment in '59: 364.
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Middlebury College - French Summer School
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 photo (see duplicate photo: mcalB11F01i13, dated 1956) of the French Summer School faculty. Senior faculty seated in the front row include (l. -r.): Claude Bourcier, Mme Guilloton,M. Guilloton, Stephen Freeman, and Mme Moissu. Enrollment in '56: 287. Junior faculty (standing)were recruited from France and other American colleges. Photo 5.
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Middlebury College - French Summer School
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- Date Created: 1958
- Description: 1958 photo of the French Summer School faculty. Senior faculty in the front row that can be identified include (l. -r.): Claude Bourcier, M. Guilloton, Mme Moissu, and Stephen Freeman. Enrollment in '58: 338. Junior faculty (standing)were recruited from France and other American colleges.
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Middlebury College - German Summer School
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- Date Created: 1958
- Description: 1958 photo of large group of faculty (seated, front row) and students attending German Summer School at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, taken outside Pearsons Hall. Director Werner Neuse is seated 11th from the right.
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Middlebury College - German Summer School
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- Date Created: 1958
- Description: 1958 photo of large group of faculty (seated, front row) and students attending German Summer School at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, taken outside Pearsons Hall. Director Werner Neuse is seated 11th from the right.
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Middlebury College - German Summer School
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- Date Created: 1952
- Description: 1952 photo of faculty and students at the Middlebury College German Summer School in Middlebury, Vermont, taken in front of Pearsons Hall, the main instruction center for the German School. Werner Neuse, prof. of German at Middlebury College and director of the summer program, is seated in the front row, 6th from right.
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Middlebury College - German Summer School
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- Date Created: 1956
- Description: 1956 photo of a large group of faculty and students at the German Summer School at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. The building is Pearsons Hall. Werner Neuse, director of the German School and longtime professor of German at Middlebury College, is seated in the front row, 9th from the left.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs