Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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Invoices are dated respectively, Jan. 8, 194[6] and Aug. 27, 1946, to James Harvey Waugh (402 Monroe St., Monterey); and one check statement, dated 3-21-46 for equipment for boiler . . .," from Hovden Food Products Corp, Monterey, and addressed to Monterey Boiler Service, 402 Monroe St., Monterey. Includes 3 envelopes with postage.
- Biographical / historical:
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Joseph Rappa was born in Italy in 1895. He came to Monterey in 1931, from Pittsburg, Calif. where he was a salmon fisherman. After several years of working on sardine boats in Monterey, he opened a tannery (for preserving fishing nets) and general marine supply store on Fisherman's Wharf. With the decline of the sardine industry in the late 1940's he started a restaurant at the end of the wharf, Rappa's Seafood Grotto, in 1953, which he operated along with his sons until his death in 1972. J. Harvey Waugh was born in Maine in 1896. He came to Monterey in the late 1920s to work as an engineer for the F. E. Booth cannery, installing and servicing boilers. He established his own boiler service company that continued long after the end of the sardine canneries.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1946
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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By appointment only; Contact Local History Librarian or designated staff.
- Terms of access:
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Reproduction by Local History Librarian or designated staff; may be restricted due to condition of material.
- Preferred citation:
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Waugh/Hovden Invoices. Monterey Public Library, California History Room Archives
- Location of this collection:
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625 Pacific StreetMonterey, CA 93940, US
- Contact:
- (831) 646-2091