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Sepia photograph of the Butler Brothers' bus. Following the completion of the Tully - Hull River Developmental Road, the Butler Brothers commenced a combined motor bus and motor launch service from Tully to Dunk Island. The service commenced in December 1931 and was popular for Sunday picnics. Along the side of the bus can be seen: "Googarra Beach"

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

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

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

Black & white photographic postcard of Cardwell Post Office, located on Victoria Street at the corner with Balliol Street. This was the original Telegraph Station and Post Office built in 1870, one of the oldest buildings in North Queensland. It functioned as a post office until 1983

Photo taken at Fleglers’ cane farm Tully, of “Wally” beside a Case tractor. Mount Mackay can be seen in the background

Sepia photograph of a Caterpillar locomotive engine at the Tully Mill with staff on and beside it. Possibly in the early 1950s

Colour photograph of Alice and Charles Caird, children of Thomas and Rosina Caird, who were married in Cardwell in 1866. Alice later married Matthew Zervodakis. Charles John Caird was a Cardwell Shire Councillor from 1913 to 1923