Due to President Trump’s elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” research databases offered through Snow Library by the state board of library commissioners and the Mass. Library System will be significantly reduced. As of July 1, 2025, the following databases will no longer be available:
Hours of Operation:
Mon, Thurs, Fri: 10 am to 5 pm
Tues, Wed: 10 am to 8 pm
Sat: 10 am to 4 pm
Click below to find information on efforts to build a new Snow Library
Browse the library’s collection of glass-plate photography by Henry Knowles Cummings, an Orleans merchant and portraitist who captured scenes of everyday life on the lower Cape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Snow Library
67 Main Street
Orleans, MA 02653
Phone: (508) 240-3760
Fax (508) 255-5701
Hours of Operation:
Mon, Thurs, Fri: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Tues - Wed: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Sat: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
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Note: The ship illustration in the logo at the top of the page is a detail from The 1858 Map of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket by Henry F. Walling.