Lazarus Archive · LZ-10465

RowanSnap

Rowan Media, 1995–1998. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 72 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 1998.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
24f8d09087be2049862bf7d8706d5ad9c49335ed02c6093a1588b4e3196b5b48
Last verified
Sep 1, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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: Rowan Media, RowanSnap (1995–1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10465.

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