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Photograph of “Tomboy”, the first of Jim Butler’s boats. Jim and Margaret Butler started a shipping service from Brammo Bay, Dunk Island, to the Hull River. When this boat became too small they bought the “Silver Quay”

Black and white photograph of Tully Post Office on the corner of Butler and Bryant Streets. This building housed the post office between 1930 and 1958. The National Bank can be seen to the left

Sepia original photograph of Victoria Street, Cardwell, looking north. The Marine Hotel is on the left. The tops of the three coconut palms on the foreshore were shot off in 1942 by service personnel who were in Cardwell to salvage a Hudson Bomber that crashed in the Hinchinbrook Channel

Photograph of an ambulance vehicle in Tully in 1929. Two ambulance officers are seated in the car, and a third man named Bill Hall is leaning on the driver’s door. An Ambulance Sub-centre was established in Tully in 1925

Sepia photograph of a Cardwell football team from the 1930s, probably taken at the Cardwell sports ground

Black and white copy photograph of the stockyard on Kirrama Range. The people with horses in the photo may be members of the Collins family

Black and white copy photograph of a car of unspecified make, and a group of people (and a dog). It was taken at Cashmere Station on the new car road to Kirrama Station from Mount Garnet

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

Sepia photograph of Victoria Street, Cardwell, looking North in about 1930. The Marine Hotel is on the left. Shops in the distance include Ryley's Newsagency