Abstract Harry J. Hirshheimer was born in La Crosse in 1871. The son of prominent La Crosse businessman, Hirshheimer was well known as a local historian. He collaborated with Albert H. Sanford in writing A History of La Crosse 1841-1900, and died in 1952, shortly after the book’s publication.These papers constitute materials collected by Hirshheimer while working on his book, The History of La Crosse 1841-1900, and while...