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Tri City Airport
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The Tri City Airport which served Wisconsin Rapids, Port Edwards, and Nekoosa, was organized in 1928 after the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company decided to purchase a corporate airplane. The Ford Tri-Motor that they bought is in the center of the photograph, together with other planes used for instruction by the Tri-City Flying School.
1928
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Forest Nursery
circa 1951
Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery.
Milwaukee County Airport
1928
A Hamilton Metalplane, which was manufactured by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee County Airport.
Acrobatic Airplanes
August 1980
Airplanes entered in the 10th World Acrobatics Championships at Wittman Field in Oshkosh. The planes in the foreground are those of the Australian and Canadian teams. Several Pitts Aerobatic planes...
Woman Raking Cranberries
1955
Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.
