Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 10: "Portraits, Sundry Machines, Royal Show 1945-51", page 223. 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 products of Australian brains and industry - being loaded for argentine. The largest shipment of harvesters, cultivators, gates, etc. Yet exported from Australia. H.V. McKay maker, Sunshine Harvester Works, Sunshine, Victoria.' Being loaded on steel-hulled barque Quilpue at Port Melbourne.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Place & Date Depicted
Victoria Dock, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa Jun 1909
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Organisation Named
H.V. McKay, Sunshine Harvester Works, 2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1909
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Place Named
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Copy Negative: NOV 1948. Stamped: "H.V. MCKAY MASSEY HARRIS PTY LTD SUNSHINE"
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Brand Names
H.V. McKay (Agricultural Equipment) , "SUNSHINE" (Stripper Harvesters)
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Agricultural & horticultural equipment, Export products
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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References
The Advertiser (Adelaide), 7 May 1909, p.8, 'HARVESTER EXPORT. - BIG SHIPMENT RUMOURED.', [Link 1] The Clipper (Hobart), 15 May 1909, p.1, 'THE HARVESTER COMBINE. HAWKS AND GULLS.', [Link 2] The Argus, 7 Jun 1909, p.10, 'SATURDAY'S MARKETS.' [Link 3] [Link 4] [Link 5]
[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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Keywords
Agricultural Equipment, Agricultural Implements, Docks, Dock Workers, Exports, Export Trade, Freight, Railway Rollingstock, Railway Tracks, Railway Wagons, Sailing Vessels, Shipping Docks, Ships, Stripper Harvesters, Trading, Workers
