Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 9. 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
[ 'Lysaght' was and still is a sheet-iron manufacturer] the interior of the sheet iron shop of the Sunshine factory, showing workers using belt-driven guillotines and presses.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Jun 1918
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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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
Equipment Manufacturing, Factories, Manufacturing Workers, Sheet Iron, Sheet Metal Shops
