Summary
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 22: "Half Tone Blocks 1933-46": 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
Photograph of a horse-drawn 1900 (or earlier) Model 4 or 5 ft Ground-drive Sunshine stripper. This has been modified into a harvester by the addition of a winnower and elevator (in the rear of the machine) and bagging-off equipment: i.e: this is the forerunner to the harvester.
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Format
Photograph, paper base, Silver gelatin print, Black & White
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Inscriptions
"Obsolete"
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Agricultural & horticultural equipment, 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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