diff --git a/apps/server/src/routes/snapshots.ts b/apps/server/src/routes/snapshots.ts
index ec413cc..b545a3d 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/routes/snapshots.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/routes/snapshots.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type { FastifyInstance } from "fastify";
 import { and, desc, eq, deviceEvents, snapshots, type Db } from "@parking/db";
 import { requirePermission } from "../auth.js";
+import { cleanType } from "../snapshot.js";
 
 // Read access to captured entry/exit snapshots (the BLOB-in-DB image store, see
 // packages/db schema + wiki/concepts/lane-direction.md). Snapshots are evidence
@@ -116,7 +117,10 @@ export async function snapshotRoutes(app: FastifyInstance, db: Db): Promise<void
     async (req, reply) => {
       const row = db.select().from(snapshots).where(eq(snapshots.id, req.params.id)).get();
       if (!row) return reply.code(404).send({ error: "no such snapshot" });
-      reply.header("content-type", row.contentType);
+      // Normalize on the way OUT too: legacy rows stored a camera's malformed
+      // `image/jpeg; charset="UTF-8"`, which browsers refuse to render. cleanType strips
+      // the bogus params back to a bare `image/jpeg` so every stored image displays.
+      reply.header("content-type", cleanType(row.contentType));
       reply.header("cache-control", "private, max-age=31536000, immutable");
       return reply.send(row.bytes);
     },
diff --git a/apps/server/src/snapshot.test.ts b/apps/server/src/snapshot.test.ts
index 81e5630..d7a4f65 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/snapshot.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/snapshot.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import sharp from "sharp";
 import type { CameraDevice, Snapshot } from "@parking/devices";
-import { captureSnapshotShared, encodeForStorage } from "./snapshot.js";
+import { captureSnapshotShared, cleanType, encodeForStorage } from "./snapshot.js";
 import { silentLogger } from "./test-helpers.js";
 
 // captureSnapshotShared: one HTTP pull per camera per vehicle. A Hikvision unit serves
@@ -139,3 +139,20 @@ describe("encodeForStorage", () => {
     expect(out.contentType).toBe("text/plain"); // charset stripped even on the fallback
   });
 });
+
+describe("cleanType", () => {
+  it("strips a camera's charset cruft so a binary JPEG renders", () => {
+    // The exact malformed value some cameras (Hikvision) return, which broke the
+    // snapshot strip for every legacy row until the serve route normalized it.
+    expect(cleanType('image/jpeg; charset="UTF-8"')).toBe("image/jpeg");
+    expect(cleanType("image/jpeg; charset=utf-8")).toBe("image/jpeg");
+  });
+
+  it("passes a clean type through and defaults a missing one", () => {
+    expect(cleanType("image/jpeg")).toBe("image/jpeg");
+    expect(cleanType("image/png")).toBe("image/png");
+    expect(cleanType(null)).toBe("image/jpeg");
+    expect(cleanType(undefined)).toBe("image/jpeg");
+    expect(cleanType("")).toBe("image/jpeg");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/apps/server/src/snapshot.ts b/apps/server/src/snapshot.ts
index a708ed3..bd07572 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/snapshot.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/snapshot.ts
@@ -40,9 +40,13 @@ import type { VisionClient } from "./vision-client.js";
 const SNAP_MAX_EDGE = Number(process.env.SNAPSHOT_MAX_EDGE ?? 1280);
 const SNAP_QUALITY = Number(process.env.SNAPSHOT_JPEG_QUALITY ?? 80);
 
-/** Strip a camera's `; charset=...` cruft from a content type (a JPEG is binary). */
-function cleanType(ct: string): string {
-  const base = ct.split(";")[0]?.trim();
+/** Strip a camera's `; charset=...` cruft from a content type (a JPEG is binary). A bare
+ *  `image/jpeg` renders; `image/jpeg; charset="UTF-8"` (what some cameras return, e.g.
+ *  Hikvision) is malformed for a binary body and browsers refuse to decode it. Applied
+ *  both on capture AND when serving, so legacy rows stored before this normalization
+ *  existed still serve a clean type. */
+export function cleanType(ct: string | null | undefined): string {
+  const base = ct?.split(";")[0]?.trim();
   return base || "image/jpeg";
 }