Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 3: "Miscellaneous: H.V. McKay Ballarat, Sunshine Factories & Products; Maps, Plans & Charts; Passport Photographs; 1904-1945", page 174. 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
Seated on the 'General Grant' tank with servicemen are 3 employees: from left to right: Miss Wright (Army) Miss Ross (Navy) Mrs Summers (Air Force). These women raised money from their fellow employees as loans for the war effort.
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 03 Oct 1944
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Stamped: H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd, Sunshine, 3 Oct,1944.
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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
Armoured Vehicles, Employees, Factories, Military Forces, Official Visits, Soldiers, Tanks, Workers, Women's Work, World War II, 1939-1945
