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Image showing the buildings at the Dunk Island resort, including chalets and the dining room in the upper right. This photo was probably taken in the late 1930s

Black and white photograph of a section of Butler Street in the 1930s. The Broadway Theatre at the rear was opened in about 1926 and demolished in the 1970s. The adjacent corrugated iron building housed a tailor and a boot-repairer

Colour photograph of coconut palms on Dunk Island and view through to the ocean

Sepia photo of a timber truck crossing the Davidson Creek bridge. Ron Flegler was a timber contractor in the 1930s and 1940s

Black and white photograph of a holiday-makers seated on a lawn which forms part of the resort, Dunk Island, probably in the 1940s. The famous Beachcomber, E.J. Banfield, called Dunk Island his "Tropic Isle"

Photograph of a tractor and fertilizer spreader on Andy Sorbello’s sugar cane farm at Silky Oak in 1973

Group of Aboriginal men, women and children. Some of the men carry spears; some of the men are adorned with traditional body paint and tribal marks (scarification on the torso)

Shows 13 Indigenous men wearing an assortment of traditional or European clothing, with some holding spears and boomerangs. All but one of the men is adorned with ceremonial body paint

Copy print of a small waterfall entering the Tully River, Tully Gorge. This photo was taken at the time the bridge over the river at Cardstone was being constructed in the early 1950s

Photograph of the ring at a Tully Show, with the horse jumps set up in the centre, Cattle being walked around and a number of cars visible