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Photograph - H.V. McKay Massey Harris, Farm Equipment Manufacture & Field Trials, Sunshine, Victoria, Dec 1948 Image Reg. No: MM 021943

THE CHILDREN WERE NOT FORGOTTEN LAST CHRISTMAS. THE SOCIAL AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION ARRANGED A CHRISTMAS PARTY, WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY SOME 150 CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF SEVEN YEARS...
Summary:
Photograph is located in an album: Volume No. 10: "Portraits, Sundry Machines, Royal Show 1945-51", page 301. 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:
'Sunshine Review': March 1949. McKay employees, Mr Chas. Anderson (father Christmas) and Mr Fred Richer are shown amongst the children at the Christmas party.
Discipline: Technology

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Tagged with: charities, christmas, infant welfare, parties, picnics picnicking, social activities, workers
Themes this item is part of: H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection, Childhood & Youth Collection, Images & Image Making Collection
Primary Classification: MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRY
Secondary Classification: Images (To Be Classified)
Tertiary Classification: images (to be classified)
Original Caption: THE CHILDREN WERE NOT FORGOTTEN LAST CHRISTMAS. THE SOCIAL AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION ARRANGED A CHRISTMAS PARTY, WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY SOME 150 CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF SEVEN YEARS...
Inscriptions: Stamped: "H.V. MCKAY MASSEY HARRIS PTY LTD SUNSHINE. DEC 1948 3431"
Format: Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted: Sunshine, Victoria, Australia, Dec 1948
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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