Summary

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 34. 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

'The original farm smithy now in the grounds of the Sunshine Harvester Works'. Original wooden-slab smithy which was moved from Drummartin to the grounds of the factory at Sunshine in 1928.

More Information

  • Collection Names

    H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection

  • Collecting Areas

    Images & Image Making, Working Life & Trades, Sustainable Futures

  • Acquisition Information

    Donation from Massey Ferguson Iseki Australia Ltd, by Mar 1995

  • Place & Date Depicted

    2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1928

  • Format

    Photograph, Black & White

  • Inscriptions

    Stamped: "H. V. MCKAY MASSEY HARRIS PTY LTD SUNSHINE". Noted on Back: "FARM SMITHY IN WHICH THE FIRST HARVESTER WAS MADE AT DRUMMARTIN, Vic[toria], BY HUGH VICTOR MCKAY IN 1884: PHOTO TAKEN SEPT 1928".

  • Classification

    Manufacturing & industry

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    Technology

  • Type of item

    Image

  • 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

  • Keywords

    Blacksmithing, Blacksmithing Tools, Blacksmiths, Workers