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Photograph of a number of Aboriginal people on the beach at Hull River Settlement in 1914. Aboriginal people were moved to the settlement from 1914 until March 1918, when a devastating cyclone destroyed the settlement. It was not re-established

Players at the Tully Bowls Club. Tully Bowls Club dates from 1946, at which time a Committee leased a small block of land on the banks of Banyan Creek from the Tully Mill

Black and white photograph taken of El Arish on 6 March 1956 in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. The damaged El Arish Hotel is in the mid-ground, and a group of people stand under the awning of the service station to the left

Photograph of a group on Bedarra Island in 1931. At this time sugar workers would make semi-permanent camps on the island during the off season of the cane industry. A radio is on a table is in the middle of the scene

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

Pupils in Grade 2 at Tully State School, 1947: group photograph.

Sepia photograph of brother and sister Ashley and Florence (Durdie) Butler arriving at the Tully Show, possibly in the 1950s. The Butler family lived at Murray Upper, on a property named "Fringford"

Railway employees (possibly porters) on the platform at Innisfail Railway station, 1953

Just inside the mouth of the Hull River. This river was named after Surveyor Alfred Hull who had worked in the area in 1871 surveying the Murray and Mackay (Tully) Rivers area

Photograph of the home of Thomas and May Butler which was located at Murray Upper. They moved from Cardwell to Murray Upper in 1902. Originally this property was called Blechynden by Leopold Stamp but which the Butlers changed the name to Fringford