Lazarus Archive · LZ-00248

CalderSnap

Calder Media, 1993–1994. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 62 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 1994.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 21 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a51450e2cd8af7f5b693dc09a8a994c207372f6a0ac8a137272ce6eb380e84bc
Last verified
Sep 23, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.

Cite as: Calder Media, CalderSnap (1993–1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00248.

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