Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 6: "Headers" 1946-1956, page 8. 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
Photo shows Mr P Martin, Koroit, harvesting nine bags of Dun peas to the acre with his sunshine HST PTO Header, fitted with a No. 5 Pick-up and cutterbar. In the green stage, the vines stook four foot six inches high. Note the bags of peas standing in the background of the photo. 'Farmall' ('International') row-crop tractor.
More Information
-
Collection Names
-
Collecting Areas
-
Place & Date Depicted
-
Individuals Identified
Martin, P
-
Format
Photograph, Black & White
-
Inscriptions
Stamped: "H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd, Sunshine, Jan 1946"
-
Classification
Agriculture & rural life, Internal combustion power, Tractors
-
Category
-
Discipline
-
Type of item
-
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
