Search the collections

Search the collections 76,902 records currently online

or return to home page

Tags

Add your own tags:
Separate multiple tags using a comma

Similar items over time

  • Photograph - Schumacher Mill Furnishing Works, Brush Machine for Cleaning Tobacco, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1935
    1935
  • Photograph - Schumacher Mill Furnishing Works, Brush Machine for Cleaning Tobacco, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1935
    1935
  • Photograph - Schumacher Mill Furnishing Works, 'Brush Machine for Cleaning Tobacco', Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1935
    1935
  • Photograph - Schumacher Mill Furnishing Works, Meat Rail Conveyor, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1935
    1935
  • Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, H.S.T. Header, Sunshine, Victoria, May 1936
    1936
  • Handbag Frame - Sample, 1937
    1937
  • Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Personnel & Staff Portraits, Jun 1937
    1937
  • Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Personnel & Staff Portraits, Mar 1937
    1937
  • Glass Negative - Chas Ruwolt Pty Ltd, Sprocket & Gear Assembly, Richmond, Victoria, circa 1937
    1937

Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, H.S.T. Header, Sunshine, Victoria, May 1936 Image Reg. No: MM 022519

ENGINE-FUNCTIONED H.S.T. HEADER WITH PLATFORM: MAY 1936
Summary:
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 11: "Ploughs Headers: 1925 - 1939", page 170. 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:
Front view of an engine-functioned H.S.T. header fitted with a bagging-off platform. Powered by a 'Hercules' water-cooled engine.
Discipline: Technology

More information

Tagged with: agricultural equipment, machines, workers
Themes this item is part of: H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection
Primary Classification: MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRY
Secondary Classification: Agricultural & Horticultural Equipment
Tertiary Classification: header harvesters
Original Caption: MAY 1936
Format: Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted: Australia, May 1936
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

Add your question or comment

  • Museum Victoria does not provide valuations, for more information please visit the valuation infosheet
  • Please note that Museum Victoria staff will not normally respond to comments posted on our website.

Themes

This item is part of the following themes:

Similar items

Recent Comments

I have the same teapot,sugar bowl,jug and three cups,saucers and plates. It was given to me for my seventh birthday present. I will be sixty seven this month.

Norma on Toy Tea Set - Willow Pattern

Tweet

To read the latest tweets from @museumvictoria

Follow us at http://twitter.com/museumvictoria

Join Up & Join In!

Follow Museum Victoria on

MV Links

Cannot be Normanton as that place is situated 40 km inland.

Phil Rickard on Negative - Normanton Harbour, by Hugh Conran, Queensland, circa 1915

MV Membership

MV E-News

Museum Victoria   |   GPO Box 666 Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia   |   Bookings & Enquiries 13 11 02
State Government Victoria
Yes No