Waugh/Hovden Invoices

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2023

Descriptive Summary

Title: Waugh/Hovden Invoices

Dates: 1946

Collection Number: ARC 554

Creator/Collector:

Extent: 1 folder : 6 items; 26 x 19 cm.

Repository: Monterey Public Library

Monterey, California 93940

Abstract: Collection consists of two invoice statements from Joe Rappa Marine Supply & Tanning Co. and Joe Rappa & Sons Marine Supply.

Language of Material: English

Access

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Publication Rights

Reproduction by Local History Librarian or designated staff; may be restricted due to condition of material.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Waugh/Hovden Invoices. Collection Number: ARC 554. Monterey Public Library

Biography/Administrative History

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.

Scope and Content of Collection

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.