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Sepia original photograph shows the El Arish Hotel, date unknown. Located on the corner of Chauvel Street and Ryrie Street, this image is taken from across Ryrie Street

Black and white photograph taken of the damaged El Arish Hotel in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes on 6 March 1956

Black and white photograph taken of El Arish on 6 March 1956 in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. The damaged El Arish Hotel is in the mid-ground, and a group of people stand under the awning of the service station to the left

Black and white photograph of the railway station at El Arish. The North Coast railway line was constructed north from Townsville at the same time as it was being built southwards from Cairns. It was finally completed in December 1924. The section from Innisfail to El Arish was completed on 18th December, 1922, and the El Arish to Feluga section was completed on 3rd December, 1923 and opened for public traffic

Black and white photograph taken at El Arish on 6 March 1956 in aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. Two men stand holding a piece of debris outside the damaged El Arish railway station

Black & white photograph of El Arish State School, which was established as Maria Creek School in 1922. The original enrolment of 5 pupils had grown to 50 by 1927, and 70 by 1930. New buildings were added over the years

Photograph shows the newly constructed road from El Arish to the beach. The Public Estates Improvement (P.E.I.) road between El Arish and Bingil Bay was officially opened in July 1936. Possibly the Muff Creek crossing

Sepia photograph of Elizabeth Hubinger (nee Cunningham) who joined her husband, Johann Christian Hubinger, in Cardwell soon after his arrival in 1869. Elizabeth died in 1930

Sepia photograph of a Buick automobile with Mrs Ellen Flegler and her son, Ron, standing beside it. Taken in the Tully area, in the early 1930s

Photograph of Mrs Ellen Flegler with her son, Ron, and his wife Nita at the Tully Show