Lazarus Archive · LZ-09356

WillowSnap

Willow Media, 2006–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 47 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
62a47e06e8750cf9e4554faa153d10bdd964d31d7809b3fab2777f533ab86334
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
WARC, replayed in the reading room
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.

Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Willow Media, WillowSnap (2006–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09356.

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