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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

Photograph of the Murrigal sawmill, taken in the 1950s. In the early 1950s the sawmill was owned by Kane & Allen

Photograph of Rick and Gard’s sawmill, Tully, taken in the 1950s

Copy print of the construction camp for the workers who completed the new bridge over the Tully River at the Tully Gorge. The new bridge was constructed in the 1950s to serve Cardstone village and the Kareeya Power Station

Copy print of the buildings provided for the construction workers building the Koombooloomba Dam as part of the Tully River Hydro-electric power scheme. Over 900 people lived here during the construction period. The mens’ barracks are in the foreground

Image looking down into the Tully Gorge during the construction of the Tully River Hydro-electric power scheme. Construction took place in the 1950s, with the Kareeya Power Station and the Koombooloomba Dam completing the major works