Lazarus Archive · LZ-17606

EstuarySnap

Estuary Media, 1998–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 32 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Deposited by Wellsby Library and Archives in 2014. The disc was scratched but readable after cleaning. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
793a6cf78bea2f851df5099ebb5e267b1272731c1507dc532b97535651ab595f
Last verified
Oct 9, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

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: Estuary Media, EstuarySnap (1998–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17606.

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