Lazarus Archive · LZ-09832

KestrelSnap

Kestrel Media, 2003–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 63 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4f86518fceb7b77538ea3922055ace4a971a89224ca47ff8ed6b6e17bc1a6253
Last verified
Oct 28, 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: Kestrel Media, KestrelSnap (2003–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09832.

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