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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Burlington Streets: Colchester Ave (4X5)
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- Date Created: 1929
- Description: Undated photo but may be 1929. View of Colchester Ave looking down the hill towards Winooski and the textile mills (upper right corner). The Burlington street department crew repaves with concrete slabs. The wire grid forms into which the concrete is poured are clearly seen to the left.
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Burlington Streets: College Street
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- Date Created: 1929-08-25 00:00:00
- Description: Aug. 25, 1929 dated photo. Burlington Street Dept crew pouring concrete base on College Street in front of New England Telephone & Telegraph Company Office Building, 260 College. Construction vehicles and bags of paving materials on wooden pallets.
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Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave.
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- Date Created: 1929-10-19
- Description: Photograph dated Oct. 19, 1929 looking north up North Winooski Avenue from the intersection with Grant Street. Note that trolley tracks stop just north of the intersection have been removed an the street resurfaced.
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Sewer Projects
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- Date Created: 1929-06
- Description: June 1929. Three crew members (and several young boys in the back) are at the sewer project site where a break is in the ravine sewer made by pressure from an exceptional rain storm. Note the clay brick (tile) construction of the damaged pipe and the new metal pipes piled up in back. See also mcalA16F13i32
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Sewer Projects
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- Date Created: 1929-06
- Description: June 1929. Break in ravine sewer caused by exceptional rain storm. Note the the new metal pipes piled up in back with other supplies and equipment. See also mcalA16F13i17
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Burlington Streets: Willard Street
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- Date Created: 1929-06-29 00:00:00
- Description: June 29, 1929 South Willard Street looking south from Spruce Street as road work started June 21, 1929 by the Burlington Street Dept.
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Burlington Streets: Colchester Ave
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- Date Created: 1929-09-01 00:00:00
- Description: View of Colchester Ave dated Sept. 1, 1929 showing the surface of the road before new repaving began. View is from near the entrance of the Green Mount Cemetery. More information on this photo can be found on UVM's Historic Project Burlington web site.
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Portraits - Individuals
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- Date Created: 1929-1930
- Description: High school graduation yearbook photo contact sheet. McAllister's grandniece, Joanne Raymond. Probably 1958.
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Burlington Streets: Main Street (Lower)
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- Date Created: 1929-10-19 00:00:00
- Description: Oct. 19, 1929 view of Main Street looking east up the hill following the repaving of the street over the old brick surface and the trolley car tracks done by the city street dept. The overhead cable wires are still visible. To the right is the Strong Theatre and the "Vermont home of the Chilton Paint Co."
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Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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- Date Created: 1929-10-21
- Description: October 21, 1929. View of Riverside Ave after resurfacing of the road by the city street dept approaching the Winooski Bridge. Old mill on the left (later converted to Forest Hills Factory Outlet) was a branch of the American Woolen Company and known as Champlain Mills. This mill is on East Canal Street, Winooski.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs