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Central Library Notice
On April 13, 2021 HPL was notified that a person working at Central Library tested positive for COVID-19. They were last on site on April 8.
The person was wearing appropriate personal protective equipment and maintained physical distancing. Central has been cleaned thoroughly multiple times since April 8.
Please contact Public Health or your healthcare professional if you experience symptoms. We wish them a quick and full recovery. Please continue to monitor yourself for symptoms and stay home when sick.
HPL will issue updates as directed by Hamilton Public Health.
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Publish Date:
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 12:15pm
HPL Catalogue New Look
A new look is coming to HPL's catalogue on Tuesday April 20. Explore and enjoy larger book cover images, simpler tools, easier navigation and other design improvements.
Publish Date:
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 12:00pm
Superior Engravers Collection
Cornthwaites Drug Store, 1930
This collection of approximately 10,000 industrial shots was given to Local History & Archives [then Special Collections] by Superior Engravers. There are shots of various businesses and industrial concerns in Hamilton from the 1930's to the 1970's.
This collection is particularly strong in covering Hamilton’s commercial and industrial sectors during and in the years immediately after World War II. Approximately 1,000 of these negatives were found to be on nitrate film. These were printed and added to the mounted picture collection.
Finding Aid: There is an in-house finding aid to this collection.
