Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 6, 'Headers 1946 - 1956", page 80. 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 three-horse team pulling an H.S.T. engine-functioned header with pick-up front, harvesting a crop of sub-clover at ground level. (The clover has been cut with a reciprocal mower and left to dry before harvesting.)
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Format
Photograph, paper base, Silver gelatin print, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Stamped: "H.V.McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd, Sunshine.
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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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