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Photograph - H.V. McKay, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Flemington, Victoria, 1911 Image Reg. No: MM 017343

ROYAL SHOW MELBOURNE
Summary:
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 4. 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:
Crowd of visitors examining the agricultural equipment on display at the Sunshine Pavilion at the Royal Melbourne Show.
Discipline: Technology

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Tagged with: agricultural equipment, cultivators, machines, workers
Themes this item is part of: H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection
Primary Classification: AGRICULTURE & RURAL LIFE
Secondary Classification: Images (To Be Classified)
Tertiary Classification: images (to be classified)
Original Caption: ROYAL SHOW MELBOURNE
Format: Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted: Flemington, Victoria, Australia, 1911
References: http://museumvictoria.com.au/sunshine. Viewed 7.5.09.
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100286b.htm. Viewed 7.5.09.
Perry, Warren. 'The Science Museum of Victoria'.
Bibliography:
  1. [Chapter] Dale-Hallett, Liza, et al. 'The McKay Collection', in Rasmussen, Carolyn. A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria. p.271-273., 2001
  2. [Article] 2003. "Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Re-presenting and Reinterpreting the Experience of Industrial Work in Twentieth-Century Australia", Labour History., 2003
  3. [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza. 2004. "Collecting by Stealth: the HV McKay Collection", Museum Victoria Magazine., 2004

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