Comment from tom
Time: May 28, 2009, 4:43 am

I’m pretty sure that Hirsch was the bag line of the White Stag outdoor clothing company, which used to make all their goods in Portland, Oregon. You can still see the big sign with a white stag in neon, but the building now houses the University of Oregon extension branch of Arts and Architecture.

Comment from jeffreythrope
Time: May 28, 2009, 9:31 am

thanks tom!

Comment from Jesse
Time: June 10, 2009, 6:01 pm

I just found your pics by searching Hirsch Weis, I picked up a sleeping bag today that looks brand new, it was in its plastic. It looks to be from the late fifties aluminium snaps and flannel liner that ties in with loops. The manufacturer is Hirsch-Weis Canvas Products CO. Logo is the same. Saw an auction site with a 1932 brochure for a canvas wall tent from the same co……cool bag

Comment from Jesse
Time: June 10, 2009, 6:13 pm

One more if you want to know about the company search Oregon History Project, here is a hint Wal-maRt ruins everything…

Comment from John Johnson
Time: August 25, 2009, 6:49 am

We have a self cooling water bag made by Hirsch-Weis Canvas Products Co. in Portland Or. It is in excellent shape and was used to fill with water and placed in front of car radiators to cool the radiator. It has a rope handle that you would put over the radiator cap.

Comment from Carbonfish
Time: April 17, 2010, 4:07 pm

While my being from Portland didn’t have anything to do with my finding this information, I was surrounded by White Stag / Hirsch Weiss skiing and outdoor gear when I was growing up in the sixties. Here is something I found on the Global Network of Computers:

White Stag

White Stag started out as the Willamette Tent and Awning Company in Portland, Oregon, manufacturers of tents and sails. The company eventually changed its name to Hirsch-Weiss Canvas Products, after its founders. In 1929, Harold S. Hirsch, son of the founder and a member of the Dartmouth ski team, was granted permission from his father to develop a new line of clothing designed exclusively for skiers. He adopted the name White-Stag after an inverted English translation of the original company name, Weiss meaning white in German and Hirsch meaning a male deer.

Hirsch’s first outfit was a one piece jumping suit, for the Dartmouth Ski Club. However, he soon began marketing his line to ski shops and department stores around the nation, and business grew steadily. During the first half of the 1930s, only three firms manufactured ski clothing in the United States—White Stag, Slalom Skiwear and the Sun Valley Ski Clothing Company. Until this time, most ski clothing had been manufactured in Europe, where skiing was more established.

By the early 1940s, White Stag was selling ski pants made of wool gabardine, whipcord, and whiptex, as well as poplin jackets, wool sweaters and animal fur jackets. The company expanded its line to include year-round sportswear in the late 1940s in order to operate twelve months out of the year. In 1966 White Stag was purchased by Warnaco Group Inc., who later sold the Portland-based White Stag label to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 2003 for approximately $29 million.

Bibliography

Senior, Jeanie. “Where Are They Now? Many Companies Have Left Town, But Names Linger On.” The Tribune. 26 Nov. 2004 http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=27301

“Tip to Tale: Clothing.” Aspen Historical Society. Aspen Historical Society. http://www.aspenhistory.org/tipchp6.html

KC

Comment from Jerome Lewis
Time: April 18, 2010, 3:39 pm

I have a Kirsch-Weis Breezeway tent purchased several years ago. The poles are good, but would like a new canvas. It sleeps 3.

Comment from James Glass
Time: July 17, 2010, 4:56 pm

I have a old wall tent by hirsch-weis mfg.co.12′x14′ 36″-120z..Given to me from my father -law in 1997.This same tent was given to him by his father-in-law 1990.do not know anything about it,but this tent has been in the family early 1950’s.so if anybody knows anything about these tent let me know.