Happy Holidays from Special Collections! The library has collected vintage greeting cards for the past few decades, which the Special Collections Department has arranged and preserved into the HPL Greeting Card Collection. During the holiday season, and for many other holidays throughout the year, we love to share our favorites from this collection. From kittens, […]
The Special Collections team at Haverhill Public Library is always celebrating archives, and this month we are bringing the celebration to you, our patrons! We have an extensive and ever-growing collection archival materials, and we want you to know about them and what they can do for you. So, you might be asking, what exactly is […]
We are delighted to announce a new digital collection of rare shoe industry books, available on Internet Archive! The collection is a sample of our shoe industry materials and includes a variety of early shoemaking publications, such as lasting manuals, a treatise on uncommon foot shapes, a shoe manufacturing machinery guide, and a retailer catalog. […]
We are happy to announce the addition of Bradford College photographs to the Senter Digital Archive! As part of an ongoing project to make our archival collections discoverable, we have been working on our largest one, the Bradford College Collection. The materials in this collection were transferred to the Haverhill Public Library following the closure […]
Over the past year, the Special Collections Department has been working to get even more of our digitized images online in the Senter Digital Archive. We are happy to announce that we are now able to continuing adding images at a decent pace! In the latest batch of images, there are many images of the […]
The Special Collections Department is celebrating Preservation Week 2024! From April 28 to May 4, libraries, museums, and all kinds of cultural heritage organizations focus on preservation training, practice, and outreach. Why is preservation so important? It’s what makes our collections last as long as possible, so that we can provide access to them now and in […]
We are pleased to announce that Special Collections will be expanding hours in 2024! We are also bringing back our evening hours for those who are not able to visit us during the day. Beginning January 2, 2024, Special Collections hours are as follows: Mondays: 10 AM to 3 PM Tuesdays: 10 AM to 3 PM Wednesdays: 10 […]
Have you ever looked at our Special Collections website – or perhaps noticed the Special Collections link on our homepage – and wondered what we’re all about? What makes Special Collections so special after all? The Special Collections & Archives Department is happy to answer your questions! Materials collected and preserved by our department are […]
December is not only the busy holiday season, but also the time for end-of-year reviews, best-of lists, charitable giving, and tidying up. For some, it is a good time to clear out attics, basements, and guest rooms to make way for the year ahead, and what’s better than to combine tidying up with charitable giving […]
As we prepare for Thanksgiving this week, many of us are planning to entertain family and friends from out of town. We gather ideas of local places to take our visitors, we regale them with our favorite tales about Haverhill, and we boast about our hometown celebrities. World famous poet John Greenleaf Whittier was born […]