Photo%20Collection

Black and white photograph taken of El Arish on 6 March 1956 in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. The damaged El Arish Hotel is in the mid-ground, and a group of people stand under the awning of the service station to the left

Black and white photograph taken of the damaged El Arish Hotel in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes on 6 March 1956

Sepia original photograph shows the El Arish Hotel, date unknown. Located on the corner of Chauvel Street and Ryrie Street, this image is taken from across Ryrie Street

Photograph of Edward Garner (Senior) with some of the first bananas grown at Garners Beach. The beach was named after the Garner family some time after Edward Thomas Garner purchased a property here in 1910

Copy print showing some of the Dunk Island resort buildings. The dance hall has “DUNK” painted on the roof for aerial identification

Copy print of the slipway and original jetty at Dunk island at low tide

Photograph of the Dunk Island Hotel in the 1930s with two men on the veranda. The resort on Dunk Island was officially opened in 1936

Copy print of Dunk island with the old jetty on the right, and Purtaboi Island in the distance

Photograph of un-named man beside a wagon loaded with loaves of bread on the railway or loco tracks. Bread and also meat were delivered to Lower Tully, Euramo and other parts of the Tully district by way of the rail or tramway lines in the late 1920s and 1930s

Black and white photograph of a crashed RAAF bomber, Hudson A16-162. During the battle of the Coral Sea this aircraft flew a search mission from Townsville off the coast but crashed on 5th May 1942 in the Hinchinbrook Channel near Goold Island. One of the crew, Sergeant James, died in the crash and was buried in the Tully Cemetery. The aircraft was towed to Cardwell for salvage and returned, in pieces, by road to RAAF Base Garbutt