Summary

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 53. 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

'Knock-off time': the picture shows workers leaving the Sunshine factory through the main gate onto Devonshire Road.

More Information

  • Collection Names

    H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection

  • Collecting Areas

    Images & Image Making, Sustainable Futures

  • Acquisition Information

    Donation from Massey Ferguson Iseki Australia Ltd, by Mar 1995

  • Place & Date Depicted

    Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mar 1939

  • Format

    Photograph, Black & White

  • Inscriptions

    "AGE" PHOTO (No Neg) "THE AGE, MARCH 17. 1839.7.639"

  • 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

    Bicycles, Factories, Workers