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Alf and Jack Perkins owned the property north of Murray Upper School where they had a Palomino horse stud which did not prosper. They died in c.1918

Sepia photograph of a section of Big Maria Creek showing a house on the left on the high creek bank. Debris, possibly from clearing, lies in the shallow creek

Black and white photograph of Dunk Island from the air, probably in the 1940s. Edmund Banfield, the famous Beachcomber who lived on Dunk from 1897 to his death in 1923, recorded that the Aboriginal name for the isle was Coonanglebah. A resort was established here by Hugo Brassey in the 1930s. During WW2 Dunk Island was annexed by the RAAF and became home to secret radar equipment

Sepia photograph of an occasion at the new Roman Catholic Church of St Clare’s, Tully, possibly the official opening. St Clare’s was officially opened on Sunday 8th August, 1926

Photograph of ex-Servicemen, Boy Scouts and other people outside the El Arish Hall, thought to be on Anzac Day, 1952. The El Arish Soldiers’ Memorial School of Arts was built by the community pioneers, and officially opened in October 1930. Balls, meetings, plays and many community events have been held here over the years

Photograph of the Anzac Day parade turning from Butler Street into Bryant Street towards the cenotaph near the Anglican Church. The Tully Stone of Remembrance was moved from the Tully cemetery, where it was erected in 1944, to Bryant Street near the Anglican Church in 1958, and then to Mitchell Park in 2002

Photograph of an Anzac Day march in Tully, possibly in the 1930s. The marchers are proceeding east down Butler Street, across Still Street. The Bank of New South Wales is on the left. A commemoration service was held in the Plaza Theatre on Anzac Day in the 1930s

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"

Colour photograph of banana plants in the Kennedy Valley blown over by the tropical cyclone that struck North Queensland on Christmas Eve, 1971. This was Cyclone Althea which devastated Townsville

Photograph of Chinese banana growers loading bunches from their smaller craft onto the "Barratta". The banana trade on the Johnstone River thrived in the years before the First World War. The "Barratta" was an iron steamship registered to Burns Philp & Co. Ltd, based in Townsville, in 1892