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EJ Banfield and his wife commenced life on Dunk Island in 1897. They lived in tents while they built a one-roomed cedar hut. Their second home, pictured here in the late 1930s, was a more substantial house

Sepia photograph of prominent pioneer of the Cardwell district, Johann Christian Hubinger, who arrived in Cardwell in 1869. He was one of the first members of the Cardwell Divisional Board appointed in 1884 and served on the Divisional Board and then the Cardwell Shire Council for over 22 years. He died in office as Chairman in 1908

Sepia photograph of Brooks’ bullock team pulling logs across the Tully River at Glen Tyson. The logs would be loaded onto Ron Flegler’s timber truck for transportation to the sawmill

Photograph of a man carrying baskets on a yoke over his shoulders to Swaysland's fruit and vegetable shop, Tully. Hotel Tully in the background. Date unknown

Black & white original photograph of the offices of the Tully River District Canegrower's Association, Watkins Street, Tully, c.1950s. The staff who work at the offices are standing outside on the pavement. The building was located on the north side of the street just above the Commonwealth Bank

Photograph of cleared land at Hull River Aboriginal settlement, 1914. This land was cleared for citrus orchards, bananas, pineapples and other crops. Aboriginal people continued to be moved to the settlement from 1914 until March 1918, when a devastating cyclone destroyed the settlement. It was not re-established

Sepia photograph of the completed road bridge over the Tully River, probably taken in the 1930s

Photograph of Feluga Railway Station. The station opened after the construction of the North Coast Railway which linked Cairns to Brisbane

Sepia photograph of the first road bridge on the northern highway over the Murray River. This bridge dates from the 1920s. A new bridge was built in the late 1960s, and later the highway was re-aligned

Black & white photograph of the Adelaide Steamship Company's "SS Tully" loading produce on the Tully River in 1912. This company maintained a wharf at Lower Tully