Cancellation: Embroidery Machine Program September 21st at Central
The planned Embroidery Machine Program in the Central Makerspace has been cancelled due to mechanical issues with the device. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sherwood Branch - Delayed Opening
Due to Staff training, the Sherwood Branch has a delayed opening on Monday, September 23 at 10 am. You may visit the Concession or Valley Park Branch for your library needs.
Online Images
PreVIEW is your portal to our digital image collection. More than 13,000 images are available at present, with more being added all the time.
PreVIEW features images from many of our image collections, and depicts locations from all over the world, with a particular focus on Hamilton's local history. In fact, most of the images featured on the Local History & Archives website, which you are currently using, are freely available on PreVIEW.
The city of Hamilton's cybersecurity-related outage has affected some of HPL's services. Our online image database, PreVIEW, is unavailable, and we are not able to provide a timeline for its return. Some images, such as postcards, can still be found online on Flickr.