Summary

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 4: 'Headers & Binders: 1929-1945', page 82. 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

A 8 horse team in tandem pulling the header in a wind affected crop.

More Information

  • Collection Names

    H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection

  • Collecting Areas

    Sustainable Futures

  • Place & Date Depicted

    Merton, Victoria, Australia, 26 Nov 1935

  • Format

    Photograph, Black & White

  • Inscriptions

    Additional numbers and dates stamped on back: #5289, 24/04/1936 and #1742, 18/05/1936. Also messages written: "Header at work in crop of wheat in Riverina, N.S.W." and "Brighten up sky".

  • Classification

    Agriculture & rural life, Animal power, Horses

  • 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

    Agricultural Equipment, Horsedrawn Equipment