Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 4: 'Headers & Binders: 1929-1945', page 164. 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
Photo of a 12 ft Sunshine No. 4 PTO Header with Bagging Platform, sheet-iron elevator, arranged to suit the platform and a 30-bushel grain-box drawn by a Sunshine M-H No. 203 Tractor, harvesting a 15-bag crop of 'magnet' wheat on the property of Mr R Fish, Dookie, Victoria. This machine is not fitted with a grain box, but does have a standard...
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
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Individuals Identified
Fish, R
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Stamped: "H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd, Sunshine, 2 July 1946 18262"
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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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