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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Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
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    • Date Created: 1954
    • Description: 1954 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy students. Photo #4.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Mount St. Mary's - Orchestra
    Mount St. Mary's - Orchestra
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      • Date Created: 1954
      • Description: 1954 members of Mount St. Mary's Academy orchestra. Photo #29.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Burlington High School - Orchestra
      Burlington High School - Orchestra
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        • Description: 1954 BHS orchestra with Mr. Lyman C. Hurd, III, Head of Music Department.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Burlington High School - Orchestra
        Burlington High School - Orchestra
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          • Description: 1954 Four BHS student officers of the BHS Music Dept. gather around a piano. Photo appears in the 1954 BHS yearbook, Oread, p. 131.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
          Mount St. Mary's Academy - Groups
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            • Date Created: 1954
            • Description: 1954 group photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy students. Photo #6.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Miscellaneous
            Mount St. Mary's Academy - Miscellaneous
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              • Date Created: 1954
              • Description: 1954 photo of Mount St. Mary's Academy students engaged in leisure activities at school. Some are reading, others select phonograph records to play. Photo #16.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
              Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                • Description: November 6, 1954. The steamship Ticonderoga, her engines still, the lower half of her paddlewheels temporarily removed sits at the end of Shelburne Bay near the LaPlatte River. A tugboat was required to push her into a man made basin dug to allow her to be positioned over a wheeled cradle needed to move her 2 miles overland to the Shelburne Museum. Photo 41.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
                Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                  • Date Created: 1954-11-05
                  • Description: November 5, 1954. The steamboat Ticonderoga is seen here at the southern end of Shelburne Bay before it begins its overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. A tugboat is drawn along side the vessel is this marshy basin. Photo 62.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Chorus
                  Mount St. Mary's Academy - Chorus
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                    • Date Created: 1954
                    • Description: 1954 portrait photo of the Mount St. Mary's Academy Chorus assembled on the school's stage. Photo #28.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Mount St. Mary's Academy - Miscellaneous
                    Mount St. Mary's Academy - Miscellaneous
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                      • Date Created: 1954
                      • Description: 1954 photo of nine Mount St. Mary's Academy students in a dorm room. Photo #12?
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs