Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 6: "Headers 1946-1956", page 150. 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 H. V. McKay Sunshine Collection which includes images, business and personal archives, films, objects, trade publications and oral histories.
Description of Content
Original caption: "Mr. R. J. Bartram, Nullawil, Victoria, harvesting a crop of wheat with his Massey Harris '780' self-propelled header: Dec 1953." The photograph shows the front view of this U.K. manufactured header, in wheat, showing the bat reel, the air cleaner on the left of the machine and the unloading auger on the right. The machine was powered by a 'Perkins L4' diesel engine.
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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
Bartram, R.J
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Format
Photograph, paper base, Silver gelatin print, Black & White
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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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