Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 28. 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 taken in December, 1924, outside the factory duplicates department, in Devonshire Road showing workers loading crop lifter fingers and bars onto a wagon for transport. (Crop lifters were used for harvesting down & tangled crops.) Note the 'Model.
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Massey Ferguson Iseki Australia Ltd, by Mar 1995
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Place & Date Depicted
Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1924
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Format
Photograph, paper base, Silver gelatin print, Black & White
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Inscriptions
"NOS 1 & 2: Despatching crop lifters from factory, Dec, 1924"
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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
Agricultural Equipment, Crop Lifters, Factories, Factory Delivery, Manufacturing Workers, Motor Vehicles
