Lazarus Archive · LZ-27477

SableSnap

Sable Media, 2001–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 38 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Deposited by Red River Libraries, from its own collections. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3d59a6e783a634d152b48a913ec7fb96d4ec16775daa79099567b6fb2c4a1f48
Last verified
Oct 30, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: Sable Media, SableSnap (2001–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27477.

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