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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March 4, 1937. View of a sewer pipe construction plant. Pipes were once made of clay or concrete tiles formed around a hollow core. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington?
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- Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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View of a sewer pipe construction plant. Pipes were once made of clay or concrete tiles formed around a hollow core. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington in the 1930s?
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- Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
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- Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
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- 1960-1961
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1960/1961. Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. Facials being given. Photo #7.
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- Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
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- 1960-1961
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1960/1961. Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. Three women get their hair washed in a beauty salon or cosmetology school. Two the beauticians are men. Photo #8. See also mcalA15F06i14
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- Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
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- 1960-1961
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1960/1961. Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. Manicures being given.
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- Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture
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- 1960-1961
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1960/1961. Sheldon Academy of Beauty and Culture located in Burlington, Vermont. Six students of a local beauty salon or cosmetology school gather for a group photo.
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- Store Windows
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- Store Windows
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Western Union window display with baskets of flowers.
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- Store Windows
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Socony automotive exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing supplies for the automobiles including lubricating oil. See also mcalA13F06i06
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- Store Windows
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Window display for Electrolux refrigerators and other kitchen equipment.
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- Store Windows
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- Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
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- 1946
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Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington. Arrangement of display cases forms an arch.
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- Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
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- 1946
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Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington.
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- Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
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- 1946
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Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington.
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- Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
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- 1946
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Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington.
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- Stores - Abraham's Drug Store (Burlington, VT)
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- 1946
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Interior of Abraham's Drug Store at 111 Church St., Burlington.
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- Stores - B.F. Goodrich (Burlington, VT)
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- 1947
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114 Cherry Street. 3/4 view of the B.F. Goodrich store front, very likely removed during the urban renewal of the late 60s. Store next door is the Tick Tock Shoppe, now on Bank St.