Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 10: "Portraits, Sundry Machines, Royal Show 1945-51", page 179. 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
The McDonald 's bag dumper was used for compacting grain in the bags.
More Information
-
Collection Names
-
Collecting Areas
-
Place & Date Depicted
2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oct 1946
-
Format
Photograph, paper base, Silver gelatin print, Black & White
-
Inscriptions
Stamped: "H.V. MCKAY MASSEY HARRIS PTY LTD SUNSHINE. 8 OCT 1946"
-
Classification
-
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
Agricultural Equipment, Bag Dumpers, Cereal Crops, Machines, Motor Vehicles, Sacks, Workers
