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Colour photograph of the commemorative cairn near the jetty at Cardwell which commemorates the first party of non-indigenous people to settle at Rockingham Bay. They arrived on 21st January 1864. In 1964 the Cardwell Shire centenary celebrations included a re-enactment of the first landing and the unveiling of this monument by Sir Henry Abel-Smith, Governor of Queensland

Photograph of a group on Bedarra Island in 1935. At this time sugar industry workers would make semi-permanent camps on the island during the off season of the cane industry. The hut behind them, with a grass covered roof was the dining room and kitchen

Black & white photograph showing typical example of cane barracks, purpose built accommodation for itinerant cane cutters. This building has three separate sleeping quarters and a communal kitchen/dining area at the rear of the building

Black & white photograph. Close-up, profile view of a Cane Toad (Bufo Marinus)

Black and white photograph of canecutters working in a sugarcane paddock, hand-cutting the cane. A canecutting gang usually consisted of six to eight men

Black and white copy print of four canecutters working in the Mena Creek area before 1920. They each have a short handled cane knife

Sepia photograph of canecutters taking a break for a photograph in the cane paddock. Seven men from a cutting gang stand in front of the cane stools with trash from already cut cane in front of them

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

Black and white photograph of Des Heilscher's car and boat parked in Butler Street, Tully in 1948. The Broadway Theatre is in the left background, V.D. Taylor & Sons' grocery store is in the centre and Sydney Bargain Drapers is to the right

Copy print showing the main building of Cardstone Primary School. This school operated to serve the children of the workers at the Tully Hydro-electric Power works, from 4 February 1957 to 14 December 1990. There were 8 enrolments on the first day