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The Tully River tramway bridge with a "loco" (cane train) passing over it with bins loaded with cut cane, on its way to the Tully sugar mill, 1950s

Photograph of canecutters, probably a cane-cutting gang, in a sugar cane paddock holding a long stick of cane. The photograph is either at Euramo or El Arish, and taken in the 1930s

Sepia photograph of Mary Ann Creagh, the youngest daughter of early Cardwell pioneers Johann Christian and Elizabeth Hubinger. Mary was the last member of the Hubinger family to carry on Hubinger's general store business, located on Victoria Street Cardwell

Photograph of the first plane to land at Brice Henry’s Riversdale airstrip. Passengers included Prime Minister Sir Joe Lyons and Dame Enid Lyons arriving to inspect Brice Henry’s Coastal Fattening scheme

Zetta Pedley (later Bobbermein), wearing the Dining Car uniform standing next to train on the Townsville-Mt Isa line. Zetta was a Queensland Railways Refreshment Room employee

Photograph of people at Flying Fish Point watching speed boat races. Three speed boats are visible on the right near the horizon. The locals are thought to have arrived on the boat “Wanderer”. Two sugar lighters are anchored nearby

Black and white photograph of the bar at the Dunk Island hotel in 1935. Several patrons are in attendance

View of the right side of the Sunlander diesel train at Innisfail Railway Station, on its first journey through the region in 1953. A crowd of onlookers are gathered at the station

Black & white photograph of part of the parade celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1953). Cyclists riding decorated bicycles, followed by Cardwell State School float. The procession passed north up Victoria Street, Cardwell. A public sports day at the beachfront jetty reserve also took place

Black and white photograph of Silky Oak Creek School building, taken in 1951. This school opened on 1st November 1940. It was located on the western side of the northern highway at Silky Oak. The school closed on 31st December 1974 and the building was used by the Queensland Main Roads Department as offices for a time