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Sepia photograph. Streetscape of Grace Street, Innisfail (looking west), in the aftermath of the cycone that made landfall on the 10th March 1918. Image shows a large uprooted tree and damaged buildings in the middle and background, including the Roman Catholic Church on the hill

‘Scholarship Year’: Grade 7 Tully State school pupils, 1949

Sepia photograph of Granadilla school children in front of the school. Granadilla School was opened in 1937 but closed in 1941. The building was subsequently moved to Murray Upper

Photograph of a number of Aboriginal people on the beach at Hull River Settlement in 1914. Aboriginal people were moved to the settlement from 1914 until March 1918, when a devastating cyclone destroyed the settlement. It was not re-established

Photograph of three Tully local men beside a car. The men are named but the car is unidentified

Sepia photograph of a group of eight ladies and gentlemen dressed to dance “the lancers” at a C.W.A. fancy dress ball

Black and white photographic postcard of guests enjoying entertainment outside a bungalow, Dunk Island resort, possibly in the 1940s

Black and white photograph taken in El Arish on the 6 March 1956 in the aftermath of Cyclone Agnes. Remains of the sawmill building and roof are in the mid-ground, and large timber logs and debris are in the foreground. Denuded trees are just discernible in the background

Sepia original photograph of Harry Bineham at the wheel of an open truck carrying a number of passengers in c.1927. The truck is labelled "For Hire". Bineham ran a general carrying business in Tully from the 1930s. His truck (possibly the one pictured) served as the town hearse for a while. Bineham Street in Tully was named after him

Sepia photograph of Trooper Harry Curtis who grew up in Murray Upper, enlisted in early 1915 and served at Gallipoli and the Middle East in the First World War. He served on Cardwell Shire Council and also joined the VDC in the Second World War. His name appears on the Honour Roll in Cardwell and Curtis Street, Tully was named after him