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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- Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. - Interior
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Photo of Interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. showing some of the machines.
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Photo of Interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. focusing on some of the machines.
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Photo of Interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp.
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Photo of the interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp.
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Photo of interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. focusing on a machine.
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- Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. - Interior
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Photo of Interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. showing some of the machines.
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Undated photo of interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp.
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Photo of interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. showing various machines. 1940s?
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Photo of interior of Manufacturing and Tool, Corp. 1940s?
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- Memorial Auditorium, Burlington - Exhibitions
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McCormick Deering Farm Equipment exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing various farm and dairy supplies and equipment such as milking machines, cream separators. Embossed with McAllister's name in lower right corner.
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Photo of hardware laid out showing metal screws and plates of various kinds.
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Farming and dairy equipment exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing various De Laval milking and separator machines being sold by A. H. Mansfield of Essex Junction, Vermont. Other banners advertise Unadilla Silo Co., Inc. or Unadilla, New York and Starline...
Show moreFarming and dairy equipment exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing various De Laval milking and separator machines being sold by A. H. Mansfield of Essex Junction, Vermont. Other banners advertise Unadilla Silo Co., Inc. or Unadilla, New York and Starline Inc. of Albany, New York. Embossed with McAllister's name in lower right corner.
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Frigidaire kitchen appliance exhibition at the Burlington Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont showing refrigerators and freezers sold by Strong Hardware of Burlington.
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- Penick and Ford (Marble Ave)
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View of a room with Cooper Bessemer machinery at Penick & Ford. Penick & Ford noted as being the country's third largest maker of corn products in 1931. See also mcalA12F14i06
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- Penick and Ford (Marble Ave)
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Employees of Penick & Ford, a bottling plant, work on the assembly line packing bottles of Vermont Maid Syrup. Noted as being the country's third largest maker of corn products in 1931.
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- Penick and Ford (Marble Ave)
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Wooden barrels and and a shoot with rock like material at Penick & Ford, that bottled Vermont Maid Syrup and Brer Rabbit Gold Label New Orleans Molasses. Noted as being the country's third largest maker of corn products in 1931.
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- Penick and Ford (Marble Ave)
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Bottling assembly machinery at Penick & Ford, noted as being the country's third largest maker of corn products in 1931. Unlabeled bottles seen on the conveyor belt. Cardboard boxes underneath read Vermont Maid Syrup.
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- Portraits - Children
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Two images, one of an infant seated on a couch, the other of a young woman standing at a machine. Seen here is a machine similar to a Gammeter Multigraph printer (right) and a typesetter (left). The typesetter is also similar to a Roneo Distributing Fount of the 1920s. Photo dated 1944.
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A workman uses a wrench to tighten a bolt as he works on a vertical chute or conveyor belt. He stands in an open industrial commercial room with a brick floor. A large open bin seen to the right.
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1944 photo of 3 photos of four young office workers with machines; typewriter and duplicating machine seen.