Lazarus Archive · LZ-01829

LumenSnap

Lumen Media, 1997–2000. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 50 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2000.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
bd213012fc93841b212d64d883a3551ae35d71a5bf1dd1a1e2f4a92fc62785cd
Last verified
Oct 2, 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: Lumen Media, LumenSnap (1997–2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01829.

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