Lazarus Archive · LZ-24809

BluebellSnap

Bluebell Media, 2004–2015. 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 2015.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
6120510423a3c5d64645c4a691ba3c8885319ee2ba84f70a8aeded56dd22fe0f
Last verified
Oct 8, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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

Cite as: Bluebell Media, BluebellSnap (2004–2015). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24809.

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