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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

Black & white photograph of exterior view of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1 Edith Street, Innisfail (corner Edith Street and Fitzgerald Esplanade), looking north down Fitzgerald Esplanade. This building is currently occupied by 4KZ Radio Station, and the Commonwealth Bank is now located on cnr Owen Street and Edith Street, Innisfail

Sepia photograph of Corporal Hugh Ramsay (Rowdy) Butler who grew up in Murray Upper, enlisted in January 1916 and served in France in the First World War. He was killed in action in November 1916. His name appears on the Honour Roll in Cardwell and Butler Street, Tully was named after him

Black and white photograph of a crashed RAAF bomber, Hudson A16-162. During the battle of the Coral Sea this aircraft flew a search mission from Townsville off the coast but crashed on 5th May 1942 in the Hinchinbrook Channel near Goold Island. One of the crew, Sergeant James, died in the crash and was buried in the Tully Cemetery. The aircraft was towed to Cardwell for salvage and returned, in pieces, by road to RAAF Base Garbutt

Photograph of un-named man beside a wagon loaded with loaves of bread on the railway or loco tracks. Bread and also meat were delivered to Lower Tully, Euramo and other parts of the Tully district by way of the rail or tramway lines in the late 1920s and 1930s