Summary

Black and white photograph of Fred Carter during his visit to H.V McKay Massey Harris in Sunshine in 1950. Carter was one of H.V McKay's first employees in Ballarat. He joined the company around 1898. He resigned in February 1910 and moved to Western Australia to take up farming. During his 1950 visit, he produced a reference which was written in February 1910 when he was employed in Ballarat. A portion of it read as follows: "One of his duties was to get out a monthly trial balance, which in a business such as this is a very considerable task" (Sunshine Review, No. 9, July 1950).

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 10: "Portraits, Sundry Machines, Royal Show 1945-51", page 273. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.

The photograph is part of the extensive H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, which consists of photographs, films, business and personal archives, artefacts, plans, oral histories and trade literature spanning from 1884 to the present.

Description of Content

Close-up portrait of an elderly man looking to the left of the camera. Extract of caption from the Sunshine Review July 1950: 'A welcome visitor: Mr Fred Carter, the first man to work in the office of HV McKay, Ballarat, paid a visit to Sunshine early in June [1950]. In February 1910, after about 12 years service, Mr Carter resigned to go farming in Western Australia.'

More Information