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Stores - Windows - Unidentified
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    • Date Created: 1945
    • Description: "'Coke' Fashions for the Younger Set." Window display with several mannequins wearing, presumably, "Coke" apparel. A cooler with the brand logo, and a case of the product are part of the display.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


    Theatricals
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      • Date Created: 1945
      • Description: 1945 cast portrait of drama production on stage; perhaps high school. Photo #1.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


      Veterans of Foreign Wars
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        • Date Created: 1959
        • Description: 1959 photo of a ceremony at Battery Park, very likely at the veterans memorial dedicated to Howard W. Plant. C. Douglas Cairns, Mayor of Burlington (perhaps former mayor by this date) is standing at a microphone, addressing the crowd. An elderly lady--perhaps a relative of Plant's-- stands apart from the crowd to view the granite memorial. A number of onlookers from the neighborhood, plus other veterans, have gathered for the occasion.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


        Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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          • Date Created: 1953
          • Description: 1953 photo of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, Post no. 782, gathered around an American flag. The different colors of dresses may indicate the service affiliation (e.g. Army, Navy, etc.) of each member. A few male veterans are in the background.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


          Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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            • Date Created: 1957
            • Description: 1957 photo of a group of VFW Ladies Auxiliary members ready to distribute, presumably, Christmas gift packages to the needy, perhaps specifically to veterans. The trunk of the car is opened and filled with baskets, almost like a modern cornucopia. Location appears to be a suburban residence, very likely the home of one of the women veterans in the picture. Photo #1.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


            Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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              • Date Created: 1957
              • Description: 1957 photo of a group of VFW Ladies Auxiliary members ready to distribute, presumably, Christmas gift packages to the needy, perhaps specifically to veterans. Includes a Coca Cola Santa doll made by the Rushton Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Photo #3.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


              Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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                • Description: Undated photo of a VFW Ladies Auxiliary event, with members standing at attention as they listen to a designated speaker. Burlington had ca. 20 organizations for military veterans in the years following World War II.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                UVM Sororities - Kappa Alpha Theta
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                  • Description: Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta. (Chapter house at 215 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt. The house was built in 1900 for lawyer Charles T. Barney and later owned by the Catholic diocese as a residence for Bishop Joseph J. Rice.) Kappa Alpha Theta was the first sorority to have a chapter at UVM (1881). A similar photo appears in the 1953 Ariel, the UVM student yearbook, on p.133.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                  Vergennes Grammar School
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                    • Description: School children from different grades and presumably their teacher line up in front of Vergennes Grammar School. Until 1950, elementary grades were schooled on the lower floors of the high school.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                    Vergennes High School - Basketball
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                      • Date Created: 1945
                      • Description: 1945 photo of 5 members of the Vergennes High School boys basketball team in the school gymnasium. (Vergennes high school was built in 1871, replaced in 1959 by Vergennes Union high school, and demolished in 1964.)
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs