A sample of diaries from Edmund Banfield's collection 1893-1923 State library of Queensland.

Banfield's Cottage on Dunk Island. 1937. Cassowary Coast Libraries.

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" image 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book illustration from Confessions of a Beachcomber by E Banfield. 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 (could be Bertha Banfield), 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. 

Mission Beach Historical Society recording the past.

North qld magazine article. september 27th. 1997. p.10

Obituary E Banfield 1866-1939. Queenslander Brisbane qld. 16th june 1923. p.15

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

Paradise found. colored article in the Courrier mail. september 1997.

Portrait of Edmund James Banfield. oil-on-board by J. Loutitt. 1967. National Library of Australia. 

Residence of E. Banfield. On Dunk Island 1935. cc-ibraries.

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. Book cover immage. uqp. 1989

Where Shadows Linger by Valerie Albiston. Sunday Mail 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 credit Caroline Horden.

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

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

Tully to Mission Beach Road in 1932.  Cassowary Coast Library. 

Four pioneering families. c.1914.
back row left: Bert Bryant (WW1 volunteer, died 1916 in France), 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).
Photo from Doug Bunting of Townsville. 

Left to right Herbert, Leonard & Sidney Cutten.

Mission Beach Sands and Gardens. 1956 

donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by M.Birch & D.Ullman

Tully Methodist Church sunday Schools Picnic 1950's donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Jan Hinchy

South Mission Beach 1950's Sunday School Picnic Tully Methodist Church donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Jan Hunchy

South Mission Beach. Heilschers Beach House. 1947

donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Daphne McGill

Mission Beach Lifesavers. 1951

donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Daphne McGill

South Mission Beach Ron Flegler Beach House.

donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Jeanette Clayton

South Mission Beach 1930. Family of Arthur Bolton. donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by George Felgenhauer

Mission Beach Road 1942

donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by W.McSparron Don & Flo Langford

Mission Beach Road Road Clearers Camp 1939

donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by W.McSparron Don & Flo Langford

Mission Beach Road Bullock Team.
donated to the Cardwell Shire Pictorial Museum by Ron Hunt

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

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

South Mission Beach Lifesavers 1944

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

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 Library.

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.

Old Garners beach home

donated by the Garner family.

Openning of the bridge at Bingil Bay 9th July 1936.

donated by the Garner family.

Sign for Bingil Bay road. 1936.
donated by Chris Forbes 

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 Cambell, 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). photo donated by Coral and Doug Bunting.

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

Noel WOOD, 1912-2001, Portrait of Yvonne Cohen, Timara Island, Nth Queensland c.1945, oil on canvas on hardboard, 69 x 55cm, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Yvonne Cohen and Valerie Albiston, 1999.

Timana, off the coast of Mission Beach, is one of a few private freehold islands in Australia. The island features 15 hectares of rainforest, a beach and a ramshackle shack. C. 1930 photograph Queensland State Library 6670 Graham Jenkinson Collection of North Queensland Photographs

Hull River Aboriginal Settlement 1914, view from verandah (C) Kenny family.

Trish Ernst in the window of caretaker's hut on Timana Island. Trish's mother took the photo taken in 1954.

silver quay sea mist moored at the hull river jetty. 1930s. cc-libraries

The Tomboy. Butler's 1st boat. Shipping service from Brammo Bay to the Hull river. cc libraries

A portion of cleared land, Hull river aboriginal settlement 1914 state library of qld.

Aboriginal women and children removed to the hull river settlement. 1916 state library of qld.

Allee of the palms on Dunk island pre world war II cc libraries.

Allison family picknicking at Dunk island cc libraries

Andersen family. Bedarra island. 1940s cc libraries

Banfield's bungalow on dunk island  1921 Book plate from Banfield book Last leaves from Dunk island.

beach picnic near castaways circa 1911

courtesy-Barbara Harle nee Berry Porter 

Bedarra island personnalities 1935 state library of qld.

Betty Andy and children at Clump Point. 1960's. John Andy's family. Photo donated by Leonard Andy 

Cutten family on the verandah at Bicton. 1914 cc libraries 

Bingil bay before the 1918 cyclone cc libraries.

Bingil Bay c. 1940s  cc libraries.

Chalets at Dunk Island  1937 state library of qld.

Children of John and Betty Andy at Clump Point 1960's photo donated by Leonard Andy

Clearing land for airstrip Dunk Island before 1938 courtesy Morris family.

Clump Point pineapple farming c. Late 1800s. courtesy Doug Bunting

Cuttens' sawmill Bingil Bay cc libraries

Cutter taking lime from Garners beach to Mourilyan Harbour cc libraries.

Dunk Island. The hut on the right above the high tide was the bar. Photo credit State Library of qld. 

Dunk island and Purtaboi Island. cc libraries 

Dunk island before world war II. cc libraries

E Banfield and friends on Dunk Island, 1922, state library of Queensland.

Eddie Garner jnr with horse team hauling logs, 1920s, cc libraries

Ernie Morris at sawmill on dunk island

courtesy Morris family 

George Webb's home in Wongaling. 1936 . cc library

Grave of Frederick and Margaret Cutten. Bingil Bay. cc libraries

Group of aboriginal people at the Hull River Settlement. 1914. cc libraries

Group of aboriginal inmates at the Hull River Settlement. 1915. state library of qld.

Group of old men removed to the Hull river settlement. 1915. state library of qld.

Hielscher family. north mission beach. cc libraries

Hugo Brassey and Tom McDonals the pilot of the first plane on the airstrip on Dunk Island 1938. Photo courtesy of the Morris family.  

Hugo Brassey house being built on Dunk Island. cc-libraries

Hull river mission. Group of aborigines on the beach 1914. cc-libraries

Sketch of Hull River by Hull. 1871. Cc libraries 

Les Alexander and his sister Margaret Bunting. 1917. cc libraries 

Mal Bradley in the power house on Dunk Island. about 1935. courtesy Morris family

Mission Beach seafront. cc-libraries

mother and child.  Hull river settlement. state library of qld

New bridge at Bingil bay. 1936. state library of qld

Ruppert Fenby. 1940s. CC Library

Wheatley family. 1946. courtesy Don Wheatley

Wongaling School House. 1934. Cassowary Coast Library.

“In the early 1930’s, grass huts on Bedarra Island were set up as a ‘permanent’ camp during the slack season in the sugar cane industry (December to May). The cane cutters who remained in the district often camped in Bedarra at that time. Jack Barnes and Fred Landau are standing beside the canvas and branch structure.” (Reference: Cassowary Coast Libraries)

Aboriginal settlement. Hull river. Cc library.

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