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Photograph of the Savoy, a boarding house on Plumb Street, Tully. Originally built to house itinerant workers such as canecutters

Colour photograph of the Tully mill golf course with the sugar mill in the background. This is identified as the fourth fairway. The golf club commenced in 1927, using a cow paddock beside the sugar mill which they improved over the years. This course closed in 1981 and a new course opened at the Tully Country Club

Black and white photograph taken of Martin's Butcher Shop at El Arish on 6 March 1956 in aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. The building has significant damage to the roof and side, and there is vegetation and debris in the foreground

Black & white group photograph of girls from Cardwell State School who performed a maypole dance at the Kennedy centenary celebrations, 22 May 1948 at Cardwell

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

Sepia photograph of surf lifesavers on the beach at South Mission Beach, in the early 1950s

Sepia photograph of the S.L.S.C. building on Kennedy Esplanade, South Mission Beach. The building was used during WW2 at Battle Creek on the Atherton Tableland and was brought to the Beach by trucks in c.1950. It was destroyed by fire c.1972 after it had been sold for a residential block. The Lifesavers were operating before the war and started up again after the war. It was a popular pastime in the 1960s

Photograph of the railway bridge over Banyan Creek, showing the bridge from below, taken in 1952

Copy print of the buildings provided for the construction workers building the Koombooloomba Dam as part of the Tully River Hydro-electric power scheme. Over 900 people lived here during the construction period. The mens’ barracks are in the foreground

Black & white photograph of El Arish State School, which was established as Maria Creek School in 1922. The original enrolment of 5 pupils had grown to 50 by 1927, and 70 by 1930. New buildings were added over the years