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Black and white photograph of a utility truck decorated as part of the May Day parade in Tully in 1951. Rita Sims and Bev Stevens are seated on the roof of the vehicle. The parade of floats passed down Butler Street to the show grounds where a sports programme was organised

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

Photograph of a concert or theatrical event, possibly a nativity scene, at St Clare’s convent school in the 1950s. Children are seated on the stage, and some of the audience can be seen (their backs to the camera) and include nuns and church officials

Sepia photograph of a group of local Cardwell and district residents on the beach at Cardwell. The paling fence around the swimming enclosure can be seen to the left, with the tide out. This was located on the beach across from the school from c.1929 to the 1950s

Copy print of a small waterfall entering the Tully River, Tully Gorge. This photo was taken at the time the bridge over the river at Cardstone was being constructed in the early 1950s

Copy print of children performing a maypole dance at Koombooloomba School in the 1950s. The school served the children of construction workers building the Koombooloomba Dam as part of the Tully River Hydro-electric power scheme

Print of the Koombooloomba Dam under construction in the 1950s. The dam above the Tully Falls is part of the Tully River Hydro-electric power scheme. It was completed in 1960, with a length of 399 meters and a height of 40 meters

Photo of Fleglers' hut at South Mission Beach with some of the family and others seated on the steps

Photograph shows the shops at Euramo surrounded by flood waters, during a wet season in the early 1950s. The shops are, from the left: Mrs Zonta's grocery store and bakery (centre), Jack and Hazel Carroll's general store, with the fuel pump in front

Photograph of carting timber from Gillespie Creek. Ron Flegler with Ford truck and Milky Pine logs, standing beside an International tractor