Photo from the article titled "Isle of Peace & Plenty" written by Jill Wells in 1976

E. Banfield Book Illustration from Last Leaves from Dunk Island  (possible date of photo 1921, HMS Fantome was visiting, could be the search for Sydney Harris.) 

Painting of Banfield's house found on flickr. 

E Banfield  portrait from North qld magazine september 27 1997 p.10

E Banfiled entertains a friend outside his scented island retreat with article North qld magazine September 27 1997

E Banfiled entertains a friend outside his scented island retreat. Image from magazine article September 27 1997.

Book image from Last Leaves from Dunk Island beachcombers and bananas edition published 1982--p.36

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing Bedarra-and-the-isles-p.53.

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing black palm harpoon points. p.300 

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing Dilly Bags p.316  

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing Falling Star Cave exterior. p.271

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing fan palm leaf dwelling. p.245

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing fish hooks made of pearl shell. p. 266

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing mother and son. p.306

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing "Nelly". p.297

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing proud mother. p.262

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing shell-knives, quartz implements and coral files. p.268

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing shell plane in use. p.261

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing "stone age man". p.236

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing "stone age woman". p.240

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing throwing the spear with yellamun or wommera. p.258

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing Tom. p.291

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield showing yam digger.  p. 283

Book cover Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield  

Cuttens with Edmund Banfield at Bicton before cyclone.
Also Cutten family at Xmas image – with Banfield and Roths:

The Brisbane Courier Mon 20th October 1902 The Northern Aboriginals DR. ROTH AND HIS WORK. AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW. Front cover photo {Cir: 1902) Back Row L-R James Cutten, Herbert Cutten, Edmund Banfield, Dr Roth. Front Row L-R Jessie Cutten, Mrs Roth, Miss Roth, Margaret Cutten, Leonord Cutten at Bicton, Bingil Bay, Queensland.

E Banfield and friends on Dunk island 1922 State Library of qld.

Book cover for Further Confessions of the Beachcombere by E. Banfield

Edmund Banfied  1901 National library of Australia.

Edmund Banfield in 1922 reproduced in article "paradise found" in the courrier mail saturday september 1997

First home of E Banfield on Dunk island 1936. cc libraries

Gravestone of E Banfield on Dunk Island. cc-libraries

Book cover for Last Leaves from Dunk Island by E Banfield. 

The Banfield bungalow on Dunk Island 1921 photo by A H Chisholm 

Essie, servant, nurse for the Banfields on Dunk Island. image from book plate. 

Article " Isle of peace and plenty" by Jill Wells 1976

Book cover for Last Leaves from Dunk Island 1982-1925

Map of Dunk island.  National Parks

Book covers for E Banfield publications.

Mission Beach Historical Society poster with historical events in the life of Edmund Banfied.

 1901 photograph from the National Library of Australia.

Facebook post by Mission Beach Historical Society. 

North qld magazine--september-27--1997--p.10

Obituary E Banfield queenslander brisbane qld. 1866-1939--saturday-16-june-1923--p.15

Banfield's grave and unknown man on Dunk-island cc libraries

paradise-found--color--the-courrier-mail--saturday--september-1997

paradise-found-the-courrier-mail--saturday--september-1997.

portrait-of-edmund-james-banfield--oil-on-board--by-j.-loutitt--1967-national-library-of-australia. 

portrait-of-edmund-james-banfield-john-oxley-library

residence-of-e.banfield-on-dunk-island-1935-cc-libraries.

Image of the beach Brammo Bay from the Last Leaves from Dunk Island. Edition published in 1982 p 132 

the-beachcomber--snapshot-taken-in-1922

The beachcomber's workshop. Book plate from Last Leaves from Dunk Island. Edition 1982 p.88

Book plate from Last Leaves from Dunk Island "the gate of hospitality p.104

the-gentle-art-of-beachcombing--uqp--1989

Where Shadows Linger by Valerie Albiston in the sunday mail color magazine march 10 1974 p.13

Book plate from Tropic Days by E Banfield. at home on the tropic strand photo Ishmael. frontispiece

Book plate from Tropical Days by E Banfield. p.201 domestic duties photo Ishmael.

Book plate from Tropical Days by E Banfield p.247 cycads photo Caroline Horden.

Book plate from Tropical Days by E Banfield. p.253 deserted photo Ishmael.

Book plate from Tropical Days by E Banfield. p.257 cycad and palms photo Caroline Horden.

Book plate from Tropical Days by E Banfield. p.301 the idle ocean photo W.E Perroux.

Notice posted by E Banfield to protect birds. 1905

Photo from the Cassowary Coast Library. Tully to Mission Beach Road in 1932.

Photo from Doug Bunting of Townsville. Taken c. 1914. Four pioneering families closely interlinked as this image reveals. 
back row left: Bert Bryant (WW1 volunteer, died 1916 in France) who it seems was dating Margaret Alexander - in front of Bert. Margaret later married Jack Bunting. Back row middle T Deraz?? and right: Sam Williams perhaps. Front row girl may be Florence Wildsoet beside mother Lizzie Wildsoet (nee Garner), right is Nelly Garner who married Sam Williams. Two of Ted and Edith Garners children (Edward and Lizzie) married two of Marcus Wildsoet's children (Carrie and Adolph).

Left to right Herbert, Leonard & Sidney Cutten.

1956 Mission Beach Sands and Gardens donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by M.Birch & D.Ullman

Mission Beach Camping donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by A. McSparrow Don & Flo Langford

South Mission Beach 1944 Life Savers donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Joe Duffy

South Mission Beach 1944 Lifesavers donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Joe Duffy

Football Team Horsing Around at Mission Beach donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Beryl Mitchell

Sailing to Dunk Island in a dug-out canoe with blanket sails donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Peter Wheatley.

Tully Beach Road donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by the CSC.

Mission Beach Lifesavers Club donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by A Lauder

Group On the beach at the Mission Beach Lifesavers Club donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by A Lauder

In school uniforms 1931 Picnic at Mission Beach donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by R. Mitchell

South Mission Beach Joy-Ride Plane donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by R. Mitchell

Catherine Garner on holiday on Allison Island, now called Bedarra island. Photo donated by the Garner family.

Mission Beach Lifesavers Club donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

Mission Beach Lifesavers Team donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D.McGill

Lifesavers Carnival at Mission Beach donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

Lifesavers Carnival at Mission Beach donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

1951 Group at the Mission Beach Lifesavers Club donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

Mission Beach Lifsavers Carnival donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

Group at the Mission Beach Lifesavers Club donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

Freda Teitzel at the Mission Beach Sifesavers Club donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by D. McGill

Dancers at the New Mission Beach Progress Hall donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by L. La Spina dancers include Geoffrey Crowther and Ron Hassell 

Cardwell Railway Refreshment Rooms Staff Outing to Mission Beach 1945 donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Bride Phillips

South Mission Beach the Azar Family Bathing 1930's donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Noel Azar

Mission Beach Road, Job Held Up by Weather. donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by the Main Roads Department

South Mission Beach the Flegler's House 1950's donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by J.Clayton

Mission Beach Lifesavers Club building and members donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by J. Clayton

Tully Methodist Church Sunday School Picnic 1956 at Mission Beach donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by M.G.Birch

Tully Methodist Church Picnic at Mission Beach 1956 donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by M.G.Birch

Mission Beach Shell Club donated by J. Belausek 

Mision Beach Post Card 2011 donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Helen Pedley

Gum Boot Boat by Ken Fox at Mission Beach Aquatic Festival donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Maxine Marsh

Mission Beach Sea Front donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by C.S.C.

Tully District Bus Service Began in 1928. J.Oxley

Hull River Christmas 1930 donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by A.Lauder

Hull Heads for a Picnic. Boat from Silky Oak Landing at the Junction of Carmoo Creek and the Hull River donated by Mrs Dunlop to the Fiddles Skardon Collection

Large Fish Caught off Mission Beach donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Maurice Benn

Silver Quay Pleasure Trip donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Jeanette Clayton

Ted Garner's Truck and Boat donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by E. Garner

Boat and Party Leaving Dunk Island donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Beth Strako

Bicton, homestead of the Cuttens at Bingil Bay 1895 book plate from The Lost Tea Plantation published 1982

Eddie Garner jnr and horse team hauling logs 1020's photo donated by the Garner Family

New Bridge at Bingil Bay 1936 State Library of Queensland.

Leslie Campbell, husband of Jessie and father of Gwen, Doug, Ken, Dawn and Don. Leslie and Jessie moved to Mission Beach with their family and settled just south of Wylie Creek in 1946. Doug named Leslie and Jessie Lanes at South Mission in honour of his parents. (Photo courtesy of Nigel Campbell).

a group of campers at Bedarra Island

family taking a spin along the Bingil Bay Road

Image of South Mission Beach donated to Mission Beach Historical Society by Ken Campbell, grandson of the superintendent in charge of the Hull River Aboriginal Settlement, John Kenny.

Florence Alexander was very well connected and was a wonderful pianist - performing at public events. She died just before her 90th birthday. 

C. 1950: Four generations of the Cutten-Alexander-Bunting-Bowen family: Margaret Edith Bunting, her mother, Florence Alexander, Dorothy Bowen (Margaret's daughter) and Dorothy's daughter Coral Bowen now living in Mt Isa (Coral Robartson). Coral and Doug are helping immensely as we piece together the history of these iconic families. 

Jack Romano .... a great promoter of our district as a tourist destination. Image kindly donated by Lachie Rick.