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Photograph of the home of E.J. Banfield (The Beachcomber) and Mrs Banfield, Dunk Island. It became part of the tourist resort. The people on the veranda are members of the Flegler family and friends

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

Photo of the coconut trees at the Dunk Island resort. EJ Banfield planted a number of these and the Morris family planted several more

Photograph of the Q.A.T.B. (Ambulance) building on Bryant Street in 1927. This building, erected in 1925, was in use until 1960 when the QATB moved to a new brick building on Watkins Street. Cardwell Shire Council took over this building and the library was located on the ground floor with the Engineering Department on the floor above

Black and white photograph of Dunk Island from the air, probably in the 1940s. Edmund Banfield, the famous Beachcomber who lived on Dunk from 1897 to his death in 1923, recorded that the Aboriginal name for the isle was Coonanglebah. A resort was established here by Hugo Brassey in the 1930s. During WW2 Dunk Island was annexed by the RAAF and became home to secret radar equipment

A Tully State School group photograph of staff and students, taken in about 1952, in front of the school building

Black and white photograph looking south down the main street (highway) of Cardwell. The fencing for the swimming baths can just be seen on the left, and the Marine Hotel is on the right with the post office left of centre. The photo was probably taken in 1941 or 1942

Photo taken of the front of Fleglers’ house at Googarra Beach. Mrs Ellen Flegler is among others seated on the wooden veranda

The cenotaph on the foreshore at Cardwell was erected after the Great War. This photo also shows the remains of Cardwell's second jetty with loading equipment on the end of the jetty. The jetty shed is visible behind the war memorial

Sepia photograph showing streetscape of Rankin Street, Innisfail, in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March 1918. The timber building to the left has no identifiable markings but is believed to have been the Queensland Bank. The concrete building next to it is A.S. Mellick's General Merchants. During the storm, around 200 people sheltered in the basement of the store. In the image, a woman in white is walking down the street with an open umbrella and carrying a book. A second figure is in the background standing outside the front of the bank