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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

The First Thing We Saw

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Katrina damage two years later: Once a church, all that\'s left are the stairs and part of the bell tower (behind the stairs to the right).

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hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, new orelans

Citation

“The First Thing We Saw,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 18, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/33187.