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Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 2: "Harvesters & Engine Driven Harvesters, Headers, Binders 1919-1937", page 112A. 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
This is the third prototype header-harvester built by Mr H.S. Taylor on the family farm, 'Emerald Hill', near Henty, N.S.W., 1914. (His first Model was built in 1911.) A restored Model of this is housed in a glass-enclosed building at 'Memorial Park', Henty.
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Classification
Agriculture & rural life, Crop management - harvesting, Header harvesters
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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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