Summary
Black and white photograph showing Hugh Victor McKay's house (on left) with Mr Oscar McKay's house (on right) in Forrest Street, Sunshine. Oscar McKay later started his own pressed-metal business in Hampstead Road, Maidstone, making cultivator discs and car wheels.
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 156. 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
Side view of two Edwardian houses with small gardens and front fences. A footpath and nature strip with trees can also be seen in the foreground.
Physical Description
Black and white copy negative.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Sustainable Futures, Home & Community, Images & Image Making
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Place & Date Depicted
Forrest Street, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oct 1918
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Format
Negative - Copy, 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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