Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 4: 'Headers & Binders: 1929-1945', page 201. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.
The photograph is part of the extensive H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, which consists of photographs, films, business and personal archives, artefacts, plans, oral histories and trade literature spanning from 1884 to the present.
Description of Content
Photo shows the original H.V. McKay clock tower on the Showroom, on the northern corner of Devonshire Road and 'Private Road', Sunshine. The building included the main office, the cost-office, production-planning, pay-office and employees records, etc.. In the foreground is one of the rail sidings that went into the factory and a 1926 'Chevrolet' tourer motor car.
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Working Life & Trades, Transport, Sustainable Futures, Science & Measurement
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Place & Date Depicted
Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1930-1950
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Format
Photograph, paper base, Silver gelatin print, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Duplication.
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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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