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.
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Large co-ed group of students at Rice Memorial High School seated in the gym for a group photo. (Dress code for the girls apparently stricter than that for the boys.)
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
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Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with two faculty members for a group photo.
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- 1959
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Small co-ed group of Rice High School students, seated in the gym for a group photo.
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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Large co-ed group of students at Rice Memorial High School seated in the gym for a group photo.
- Title
- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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Large group of students at Rice Memorial High School seated in the gym for a group photo. (Dress code for the girls apparently stricter than that for the boys.)
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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Large co-ed group of students at Rice Memorial High School seated in the gym for a group photo.
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with two faculty members for a group photo.
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- undated
- Description
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Large group of students at Rice Memorial High School seated in the gym for a group photo. (Dress code for the girls apparently stricter than that for the boys.)
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- Rice Memorial High School - Groups
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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Rice High School students seated in the gymnasium with a faculty member for a group photo.
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- School Groups - Unidentified
- Date Created
- 1952
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- Theatricals
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- Theatricals
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- Theatricals
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- Trinity College - Groups
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- UVM - Fraternities - Acacia
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Members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, with house at 21 So. Williams St., Burlington, Vt. (Same group as mcalB19F24i04.) Dated 1953. Photo #8.
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Members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, with house at 21 So. Williams St., Burlington, Vt. Dated 1953. Photo #9.
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- UVM - Fraternities - Alpha Tau Omega
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