Lazarus Archive · LZ-11939

GraniteSnap

Granite Media, 2002–2007. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 9 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2007.

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)
5a560f17ca1d15c6568eb27dcd10e8e01700875ca9be6eed82682ceccb558361
Last verified
Oct 8, 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: Granite Media, GraniteSnap (2002–2007). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11939.

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