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Photograph depicting a car being towed by three horses through a river crossing somewhere in the Tully district

Black and white photograph of the second jetty at Cardwell. The original jetty (built in 1872) was located out from near the old telegraph office and was destroyed by a cyclone. The jetty in this image, built near where the current jetty is now found, was itself damaged by the cyclone of 1918 and reduced in length

Photo of a timber truck loaded with logs at Murray Upper ready to transport the logs to Lawsons’ Sawmill in Tully. The five men shown worked in the timber industry

Photograph of “Tomboy”, the first of Jim Butler’s boats. Jim and Margaret Butler started a shipping service from Brammo Bay, Dunk Island, to the Hull River. When this boat became too small they bought the “Silver Quay”

Photograph showing the El Arish Hotel in the 1930s. Passing the hotel is a procession of decorated floats and vehicles as well as horses being ridden. A crowd watches from the street in front of the hotel. The occasion for the parade is not recorded

Black and white photograph taken in El Arish on the 6 March 1956 in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. Remains of the sawmill building and roof are in the mid-ground, and large timber logs and debris are in the foreground. Denuded trees are just discernible in the background

Refreshment Room staff at the Townsville railway station, 1955

Sepia photograph of the home of Thomas and May Butler which was located at Murray Upper. The small building on the left is the post office. The building next to it is the original slab hut built by Leopold Stamp in the 1880s, which he called Blechynden but which the Butlers changed to Fringford when they bought the property

Photograph of a group of children on the steps of St Clare’s convent school in the late 1930s. The girls are dressed as angels for an event at the school

Ron Flegler loading sugar cane tops onto a horse-drawn cart at the Flegler farm, Old Tully Road. The tops were then fed into the “chop chop” machine to reduce them to food for the horses that worked on the farm