Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 4: 'Headers & Binders: 1929-1945', page 87. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.
Horse-drawn 10 ft Engine functioned H.S.T. header, fitted with crop lifter fingers, working in a down and tangled crop of wheat.
This image forms part of the extensive McKay Sunshine collection which includes images, film, objects, trade publications and oral histories.
Description of Content
Horse-drawn 10 ft Engine functioned H.S.T. header, fitted with crop lifter fingers, working in a down and tangled crop of wheat.
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
There is a handwritten message on the back regarding use of this photo in an H.V.McKay publication. A copy of the photo, cut from a magazine, is pasted under the original in the Guard Book.
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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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