Lazarus Archive · LZ-21267

VantageSnap

Vantage Media, 2007–2012. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 61 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2012.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
aa025cd350b2f1f9a188f851f231b2455d75f1fb30cc78bde395cc05a85e2b6e
Last verified
Oct 23, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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

Cite as: Vantage Media, VantageSnap (2007–2012). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21267.

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