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Black & white photograph. Streetscape of Rankin Street, Innisfail, in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March 1918. Looking south along Rankin Street, possibly from an elevated position

Black & white photograph of the severely damaged Rechabite (RAOB) Hall, taken in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March 1918. The damaged hall is in the foreground, and views of rear of damaged buildings in the background. The Rechabite Hall was situated on what is now the southern end of Owen Street, and was next to the 'old' Joss House, which was on the corner of Owen Street and Edith Street, Innisfail

Refreshment Room staff at the Townsville railway station, 1955

Refreshment Room staff at the Townsville railway station, 1955

Betty (in white uniform at front) worked in the kitchen; Pat, Zetta and Daphne (in grey uniforms) worked in the dining car

An early photograph of Tully township (1926) showing the first houses built on the side of Mount Tyson

Photograph of Rick and Gard’s sawmill, Tully, taken in the 1950s

Photograph showing the un-surfaced road along the beach at Bingil Bay, looking towards the north in the 1930s. The shacks on the foreshore were the male and female changing rooms. The bare hillside over Bingil Bay creek grew citrus and pineapples

Ron Flegler loading sugar cane tops onto a horse-drawn cart at the Flegler farm, Old Tully Road. The tops were then fed into the “chop chop” machine to reduce them to food for the horses that worked on the farm

Sepia photo of a timber truck crossing the Murray River at Storch’s crossing. Ron Flegler was a timber contractor in the Murray River area in the 1930s and 1940s