Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Collection Overview
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)...
Show moreLouis 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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- Farms - Livestock
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undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
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- Farms - Livestock
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1945 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coops. Photo #7.
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- Farms - Livestock
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1944 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coop with a barn and other farm buildings in background.
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- Farms - Livestock
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1945 photo of dairy cows grazing in a pasture with a barn and other farm buildings in background. Photo #5.
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- Farms - Livestock
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1945 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coops. Photo #6?
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- Farms - Livestock
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1945 photo of farm chickens feeding outside their coops. Photo #5.
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- Farms - Livestock
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1945 photo of a farm with dairy cows in a pasture, farm buildings seen in the background and a man on a horse to the far right.
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- Farms - Livestock
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1944 photo of a young bull with its handler standing outside with farm buildings in the background.
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- Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
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Farmhouse with small attached barn next to a paved road. An automobile is parked in the front yard just off the road. Trees are bare of leaves. There are mountains in the background. Landscape view of home of the man seen in mcalA16F01i34. He and his family seen in mcalA15F02i12
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- Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
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- Machinery
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Eastern States Farmers' Exchange of Springfield, Mass. exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont. Undated. Embossed with McAllister's name lover right corner.
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