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Copy print showing the area being cleared for an airstrip on Dunk Island. Hugo Brassey commenced planning the aerodrome in 1938. The airstrip was completed in 1939 and the first fully loaded plane landed on 10 July 1939

Black and white copy photograph of Freeman Lawrence's bullock team at Cardwell. When Walter Scott died at the Valley of Lagoons in 1890 his family in England sent out a granite cross to mark his grave. The large monument could not be transported by this bullock team up the difficult Cardwell Range route and remained in the township

Sepia photograph of a small aeroplane belonging to Tracey of Cairns, probably at the Tully Show grounds, where joy rides were organised. Possibly the 1930s

Sepia original photograph shows AJ Campbell, HG Barnard and Thomas Butler beside a tent at a site near the Murray Falls, Murray Upper in 1916

The photograph shows logs piled in the yard of Lawson & Son Sawmillers & Plywood Manufacturer's, Tully. Lawsons purchased the sawmill on the bank of Banyan Creek in 1937, and sold it in the mid-1960s. The mill closed in 1976

Photo of two shacks that are part of a timber-getters’ camp at the North Murray River in about 1940. Ron Flegler and Walter Vitti had the contract to supply timber from this area to Stand Ply Mill at Kennedy

Sepia photograph of three of the Cutten brothers, who pioneered the Bingil Bay area from the 1880s. On their property, Bicton, they grew many tropical fruits including pineapples. They also built a sawmill which prospered from the abundance of local timber

Photograph of the tents of the road building crew during the building of the Lower Tully Road.The Lower Tully section of the Main Roads developmental road from Tully town to Lower Tully was commenced in the late 1920s. Messrs Pershouse and Hunt were first contracted for the works in 1927. Some of the machinery and equipment are in the centre

Sepia photograph taken looking down in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March, 1918. On the left side of the image, a group of men are standing in the front of what remains of the White Horse Hotel, Edith Street, Innisfail. A.S. Mellick's Central Merchant Store on Rankin Street is identifiable in the background

Sepia photograph looking across Edith Street, Innisfail, taken in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on 10th March 1918. The White Horse Hotel is the first building from the left, and the Oddfellows Hall is situated next to it. A small group of men are moving through the debris, damaged buildings and along the road