Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 54. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.
This image forms part of the extensive McKay Sunshine collection which includes images, film, objects, trade publications and oral histories.
Description of Content
Photo shows train wagons loaded with binders for export to England. The binders were fully tested then dismantled and flat-packed in boxes for export. Note the overhead crane for lifting the crates.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 Feb 1940
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
A later shipment of Binders was lost at sea during the War Period.
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Type of item
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References
[Link 1] Viewed 7.5.09. [Link 2] Viewed 7.5.09. Perry, Warren. 'The Science Museum of Victoria'.
[Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza, et al. 'The McKay Collection', in Rasmussen, Carolyn. A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its predecesors, 1854-2000. pp.271-273., 2001
[Article] 2003. "Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Re-presenting and Reinterpreting the Experience of Industrial Work in Twentieth-Century Australia", Labour History., 2003
[Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza. 2004. "Collecting by Stealth: the HV McKay Collection", Museum Victoria Magazine., 2004
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Keywords
Cranes, Export Trade, Factories, Factory Delivery, Reaper-Binders, Workers
