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Panoramic hand coloured photograph, c1920s - 1930s. Taken from the western (town) side of the river, near the confluence of the North Johnstone and South Johnstone Rivers. Houses in East Innsifail are visible on the far side of the bridge. To the left of the image there is a tramline and jetty. An unidentified woman is standing next to the bridge

Sepia photograph of Torrisi's general store at Kennedy. Located on the Bruce Highway, this photo was taken in 1948. It was owned by Rosaria and Giuseppe Torrisi and in later years was extended and refurbished

Photograph of the railway station building at Kennedy. The siding was named Kennedy by the Railways Department on 20 Feb 1926, replacing the original name of Mulgan. The North Coast railway line was constructed north from Townsville at the same time as it was being built southwards from Cairns. It was finally completed in December 1924

Black and white photograph of the two buildings at Kennedy State School in about 1950. A provisional school opened at Kennedy Creek in 1927. That building was moved in 1943 to the present site and raised on high blocks. The name was changed to Kennedy State School in 1945. The low building on the right in the photograph was later also raised on blocks and joined to the other building by a veranda

Sepia photograph of George Hunt's truck outside the Kincora Hotel, Lower Tully. George Hunt worked on the construction of the Lower Tully road in the 1920s. The Kincora Hotel was built by Terence O'Loghlen who applied for a licence for a hotel on his cane farm in 1927. The hotel opened in October 1928. The name, Kincora, commemorates the palace of Brian Boru in Co. Clare, Ireland

Black and white copy photograph of the stockyard on Kirrama Range. The people with horses in the photo may be members of the Collins family

Lady Brassey and friend attending the Tully Show, probably in the late 1930s. Lady Brassey was the Baroness von Bodenhausen, who became the wife of Hugo Brassey in 1935. They spent some years on Dunk Island where Hugo developed a resort

Black and white photograph of a canecutter cutting green cane by hand. The cut stalks can be seen laid out to the left ready to be bundled and lifted onto bins to be taken to the sugar mill

Black & white Murray Views photographic postcard showing a Leland Hippo timber truck loaded with logs on the Kirrama Range Road

Sepia original photograph of the sugarcane tramway line bridge over Liverpool Creek near Silkwood