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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1944 photo of four men, very likely in a business setting, with unpainted walls in the background. Names, location, occasion are unknown.
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1951 photo of a man appearing to be placing a pin on the lapel of another man while four other men look on. They stand in a large open space commercial building. Metal office desk behind them.
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1951 group photo of male employees of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s building at 266 Main Street, Burlington.
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1951 portrait of a large group of male employees assembled along side a large brick building; New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s new building at 266 Main Street, Burlington, Vt.
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1945 photo of a large group of men and women assembled within what appears to be a small stage. The group dynamic suggests that they are co-workers in a business, possibly with spouses present. Identity of group, venue, and occasion are unknown.
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Ca. 1945 photo of 5 men, 2 women, all employees, apparently, of an unidentified business. This is the same office seen in mcalB15F20i09.
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1945 photo of a large group of men and women assembled within what appears to be a small stage. The group dynamic suggests that they are co-workers in a business, possibly with spouses present. Identity of group, venue, and occasion are unknown.
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Two men in shirt and tie playing horse shoes. 1949. Other male spectators and players stand behind. One woman and child background right. Company picnic? Photo #1
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1944 photo of four men, very likely in a business setting, with unpainted walls in the background. Names, location, occasion are unknown.
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1945 photo of a group of men and women, very likely co-workers. Business and location are unknown. The sign in the back says, possibly, Lennox air conditioning, but there was no business in Burlington by that name.
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1937 photo of a group of young women, with five male cooks and kitchen staff standing behind them. Location, occasion unknown.
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1951 / 1952 photo of a man appearing to be placing a pin on the lapel of another man while several other men look on. They stand near a metal office desk. Photo #1.
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1949 photo of a group of workmen playing cards in a locker lunch room at a wooden table with bench seats attached. Metal lunchboxes on shelf above table. Lockers seen behind as well as a sign "Please put all waste paper & refuse in containers provided."
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- Portraits, groups, unidentified
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Six men stop their work and stand next to two butchered cows (steers?) in a meat processing plant. Undated.
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- Scrap Metal Collection
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- 1945
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1945 - Scrap Metal Collection - A man with a power shovel has a scoopful of scrap metal near a partially filled truck. Initials on the truck's door read, "C.R. Co." Another man stands in the truck bed with shovel, two others look on.
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- Scrap Metal Collection
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- 1945
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1945 - Scrap Metal Collection. Seen is a huge dumpster full of metal cans and other scrap. Two men have shovels and stand in a chute. Two other men stand nearby. Chute leads down into a building.
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- Scrap Metal Collection
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- 1945
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1945 - Scrap Metal Collection. Seen is a huge dumpster full of metal cans and other scrap. Two men have shovels and stand in a chute. Two other men stand nearby. Chute leads down into a building.
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- Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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March 4, 1937. View of work man and machinery at 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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March 5, 1937. This view shows the inside of the room used for cutting, rolling and electrically welding the wire reinforced baskets used as reinforcements for the concrete sewer pipe. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington?
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- Sewer Tile Construction Plant
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March 4, 1937. View of sewer pipes at a sewer tile construction plant. Could this be the Justis Vault Co. on Riverside Ave, Burlington?