Hovden Food Products Collection
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Monterey Public Library
2023
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Monterey, California 93940
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Title: Hovden Food Products Collection
Dates: 1933-1981
Collection Number: ARC 701
Creator/Collector:
Hovden Food products, Inc.
Portola Sardines
Extent: 2 document cases: 1.4 cubic ft.; 1.7 linear ft., 4 flat boxes (various sizes): 27 cm x 32 cm to 38 cm x 48 cm.
Repository:
Monterey Public Library
Monterey, California 93940
Abstract: Hovden Food Products Corporation was founded by Knut Hovden in 1916 and continued until 1973 in Monterey. Hovden also initiated
another plant at Moss Landing. In 1951 Knub Hovden retired. Hopkins Marine Station purchased the facility in 1967 with Wilbur-Ellis
Corporation of San Francisco operating the cannery under the name of Portola Packing company until Wilbur-Ellis closed the
plant in 1973. Hovden Food Products diversified from primarily sardine processing to processing other fish and squid. It became
the largest and longest-running cannery operating on Ocean View (the famed Cannery Row).
Language of Material: English
Access by appointment only; contact Local History Librarian or designated staff.
Reproduction by Local History Librarian or other designated staff; may be restricted due to condition of the materials.
[Identification of item]. Hovden Food Products Collection. Collection Number: ARC 701. Monterey Public Library
Transferred from the Maritime and History museum of Monterey in 2016.
Scope and Content of Collection
Organized by series and arranged by subject in folders, then chronologically by item. Collection contains three series: I.
Document Files, including staff rosters, forms, invoices, work notices, 1941 to 1950, as well as Hovden publictions and Portola
brand can labels; II. Account Ledgers, including bound financial invoices and statement, 1957-1963, and inspection trust fund
records, 1957-1981; III. Oversized Ephemera, containing employee wages and work poster, signs, and advertisement from 1940s-1950s.
Fish Canning Industry
Sardine Industry
Monterey, California
Can Labels
Ledgers
Invoices
Printed Emphemera
Rosters
Permits