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Negative - Workers in a Meat Processing Plant, 1974
Reg. No: MM 056285
- Summary:
- Black and white 5" x 4" negative showing a group of male and female food processing workers boning and packaging meat products at an abbattoir in 1974.
This image is part of the Laurie Richards Collection at Museum Victoria comprising approximately 85,000 negatives taken by the Melbourne based Laurie Richards Studio between the 1950s -1970s. These negatives are all mostly large format [5"x 4"/ 12.5 x 10 cm], black and white images, though a significant number are in colour. The many photographic jobs that were undertaken in the course of thirty years are itemised in a set of log books, copies of which are also held by Museum Victoria.
Laurie Richards was a professional photographer who began his career as a photo-journalist, working for the Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide, and the Argus and the Herald newspapers in Melbourne. In 1953, he opened his own business and set up a photographic studio at his home at 4 Tower Avenue, Alphington, an inner suburb of Melbourne. At its peak, in the late 1960s, the Laurie Richards Studio was one of Melbourne's pre-eminent commercial photographic studios, employing twelve photographers. The Laurie Richards Studio worked mainly in advertising and public relations, and had a broad clientele which included commercial companies, government institutions and the entertainment industry. - Description:
- Black and white 5" x 4" cellullose acetate negative.
- Description Of Content:
- Processing workers boning and packaging meat products at an abbattoir. The workspace is brightly lit, and contains gleaming metal work equipment. A conveyor belt is in the foreground, transporting boxes of 'boneless beef'. In the middle of the space, large carcasses are hanging from a motorised structure, at which workers are standing and boning meat. On both sides of this structure, workers stand either side of long conveyer belts, packaging meat. Meat sits around the work space - in a wheelbarrow next to the motorised structure, on the floor, in chutes along the floor, and in containers on racking, next to the workers.
- Acknowledgement:
- Laurie Richards Collection, Museum Victoria
| Discipline: | Technology |
| Dimensions: | 100 mm (Height), 103 mm (Width) |
| Dimension Comment: | Approximate dimensions |
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| Tagged with: | butchers, conveyors, factories, food workers, lifting equipment, meat, wheelbarrows, work benches, protective clothing safety wear |
| Themes this item is part of: | Laurie Richards Collection, Working Lives & Work Places in Photographs, Clothing & Textiles Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection, Laurie Richards Studio, Photographer, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Primary Classification: | MANUFACTURING & INDUSTRY |
| Secondary Classification: | Food & Drinks - Meatworks & Freezing Works |
| Tertiary Classification: | product packaging |
| Format: | Negative: Black & White; 5 in. x 4 in. |
| Place & Date Depicted: | Victoria, Australia, 1974 |
| Photographer: | Laurie Richards Studio, Alphington, Victoria, Australia, 1974 |
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