Hanset Brothers, Inc.

Hanset Brothers, Inc. Hanset Brothers, Mfg. was a broom factory in Portland Oregon that manufactured upright corn brooms from 1919 until the 1990’s. stories or pics you have.

The company opened in 1919 and shut down in 2024. Please share any Hanset Bros., Mfg. Founded by Leon Hanset and his brothers to manufacture and sell corn brooms, Hanset Brothers grew to become one of the largest broom manufacturers on the west coast. Brushes and mops were added for resale along with additional lines. In 1977 Hanset Brothers, Inc. became one of the first Master Distributors for Rubbermaid Commercial Products.

ABCO Supply magnet, from late 80’s I would guess. Ran by Buddy, his son Ron and later became part of Walter E. Nelson C...
11/21/2025

ABCO Supply magnet, from late 80’s I would guess. Ran by Buddy, his son Ron and later became part of Walter E. Nelson Co.

I just got this little whisk that I bought on EBay. Seller is in Medford Oregon. I imagine it was an advertisement pie...
01/04/2025

I just got this little whisk that I bought on EBay. Seller is in Medford Oregon. I imagine it was an advertisement piece, guessing from the 40’s or 50’s. Fun to add to the collection.

Old advertising magnifying glass from St. Helen’s Wood Products Co. in Saint Helens Oregon. Hanset Bros., Mfg. bought b...
11/28/2024

Old advertising magnifying glass from St. Helen’s Wood Products Co. in Saint Helens Oregon. Hanset Bros., Mfg. bought broom handles from them circa 1950.

60’s Hanset pin in it for demonstration.

A couple old products: Hysan Vandalex and Texize Wood Plus. Hysan was a top chemical manufacturer and I basically had f...
05/01/2024

A couple old products: Hysan Vandalex and Texize Wood Plus. Hysan was a top chemical manufacturer and I basically had forgotten about Texize (a division of Morton Thiokol that made the o-rings for the Challenger disaster). Our uncle Gordon Earsley, who ran Hanset Bros., Inc. with dad, started his own independent rep firm and represented Hysan among other lines.

I remember an old tech calling this method of file transfer the “Nike Network.” Save the file to a floppy disk, remove ...
04/29/2024

I remember an old tech calling this method of file transfer the “Nike Network.” Save the file to a floppy disk, remove it, walk it to the another computer. 😉

I wonder if Hirsh is still interested in “close-out” items? We have a few things left. 😉
04/24/2024

I wonder if Hirsh is still interested in “close-out” items? We have a few things left. 😉

As a kid I remember finding a few liquor bottles hidden behind broom corn. Dave Hanset and Gordon Earsley stopped the d...
04/18/2024

As a kid I remember finding a few liquor bottles hidden behind broom corn. Dave Hanset and Gordon Earsley stopped the drinking when they took over. I remember dad saying workers wouldn’t get a paycheck until after their shift on Friday. Apparently when they got the check on Thursday they might not show up the next day. Here is a bottle I found that dad wrote the name on. Between the paint-room fumes and the wine it probably wasn’t a very healthy lifestyle, but times were often hard for a lot of these people.

Original “clip art.” You would cut out the images you needed (with actual scissors), paste it on a page using a light b...
04/16/2024

Original “clip art.” You would cut out the images you needed (with actual scissors), paste it on a page using a light box, then the printing company would take a photo of the completed page that they then printed. What a pain. Later we would have to scan these before the manufacturer had image files available.

Brown Beauty Broom skirt from around 1940 I would guess. Another one I hadn’t seen before. New and unused. It must be c...
02/28/2024

Brown Beauty Broom skirt from around 1940 I would guess. Another one I hadn’t seen before. New and unused. It must be cellophane?

Going through things I found this old broom label I hadn’t seen before. We always had lots of old labels so we used the...
02/27/2024

Going through things I found this old broom label I hadn’t seen before. We always had lots of old labels so we used them for writing down employee work. This one for Frank Post would be for sewing 9 dozen Ever Blue and 3 dozen whisks. He must have also made whisks as the note suggests. October 11, 1960.

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1105 SE WOODWARD Street
Portland, OR
97202

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