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10th Anniversary

During the month of August 2015 visitors to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art were invited to share their memories of Hurricane Katrina, which came…

The Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at The University of Southern Mississippi

Collection of oral history interviews and transcripts from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Po-Boy Preservation Festival

Sub-collection of Po-Boy Memories; this collection archives objects specifically related to the Po-Boy Preservation Festival held annual on Oak…

Knox Presbyterian Church, Selkirk, MB

DVD of Knox Pres.'s trip to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in May of 2006

Katrina and Aftermath

Phil Melancon's experience with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Philip Melancon

An overview of the life and career of pianist, song writer, and entertainer Philip Melancon.

Circle Inc

Circle, Inc. was founded by Mr. Monroe J. Wolfe, Sr. in 1960. In the early years, Circle, Inc. was primarily devoted to dredging and heavy…

Dan Milham

http://danmilham.photoworkshop.com/

Courtney Giarrusso

University of New Orleans alumna and Community Activist on behalf of those with Special Needs.

St. Bernard Parish

Pictures of how residents of St. Bernard parish were affected after Katrina, and how they lived before the devastating flood.

Presbyterian Recovery Efforts

A collection of the response to Hurricane Katrina by those in Presbyterian Church.

Bike Distribution Map

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Community Bike Project repaired and then distributed throughout New Orleans hundreds of used bikes.

New Orleans Community Bike Project

New Orleans Community Bike Project or Plan B is a community-run bike project that functions as an open workspace for bicycle repair. The workspace…

Slidell

A record of the impact of Hurricane Katrina upon one of the largest St. Tammany Parish communities in the New Orleans metropolitan area. This…

Andree' Maduell

I had just retired from teaching elementary school in Jefferson Parish and bought property in Lacombe. This was in the summer of 2005 just before…

Andre Perry

Dr. Andre Perry is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of New Orleans. He received his doctorate from the University of…

AD: New Orleans After the Deluge

When the levees broke, nothing was the same for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is about escaping and surviving…

Mississippi Center for Nonprofits

The Mississippi Center for Nonprofits is the state's only nonprofit management resource center. For the thousands of nonprofit organizations across…

New Orleans Science and Math Charter High School

Reflections of New Orleans High School Students after the storm.

Sociology Department, MSU

Faculty and student research and reflections on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. McNeese played host to over 200 displaced students from New Orleans…

McNeese State University

This collection represents materials submitted by students, faculty, staff, and administration of the leading post secondary institution serving the…

Helen Hill

Shortly after filmmaker Helen Hill was murdered on January 4, 2007 in her New Orleans home, artists and friends worldwide began to memorialize Helen.…

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Media Arts

Students in the Media Arts program of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts created video interpretations of their return to the city in spring…

Katrina Exhibit, New Orleans Museum of Art

A chronicle of the more than two years of work required to develop the paintings chronicled via writings, sketches, planning documents, and other…

Katrina's Personal Impact

Photographs, video clips, journal entries, and other materials documenting the effects of Katrina on the residence of Rolland Golland and his…

Career Background

Information about the 50-year career of one of New Orleans and the Southern region's most significant living artists, including family photographs,…

Rolland Golden

Internationally celebrated artist Rolland Golden resides in Folsom, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi. A New Orleans native, Golden has had over 100…

Lorraine Monseu

Post-Katrina photographs by Lorraine Monseu. Monseu is a visual artist who also worked as a circus sign painter, actress, clown, and stiltwalker in…

Mary Gehman

Mary Gehman has actively participated in the New Orleans writing community since the 1970s. She was greatly involved in developing Margaret Media,…

New Orleans Writers

Local authors are documenting and interpreting the crises unfolding in post-Katrina New Orleans, providing indepth detail beyond the grasp of many…

NEIGHBORHOODS: A Series of Site-Specific Art Installations

NEIGHBORHOODS is a series of site-specific, multidisciplinary art installations set up in flood-damaged houses in New Orleans. The May 2007…

Courtney Egan

The Katrina-themed work of New Orleans artist Courtney Egan. Courtney Egan's website: http://www.chaoshag.com/

Maxx Sizeler

The Katrina-themed work of New Orleans artist Maxx Sizeler. Maxx Sizeler's website: http://www.maxxsizeler.com/index.htm

Neighborhoods

Beginning in 2006, multimedia installations in gutted homes were presented by a coalition of New Orleans artists. The "Neighborhoods" project,…

New Orleans Visual Artists

Visual artists are responding to the aftermath of New Orleans' flooding in a variety of ways. The group and individual work within this collection…

Louisiana Air National Guard, 159th Fighter Wing

Photographs and stories from the 159th Fighter Wing.

Documents & Images, Convention Center

Documents and images regarding delayed relief efforts for New Orleans residents while thousands of St. Bernard residents were evacuated by barge,…

Earl K. Long Library, Special Collections

UNO's Special Collections contains original archive and manuscript collections, rare books, the UNO Faculty Authors Collection, original copies of…

Publications

Published articles and other materials stemming from the work done by members of the Joint Task Force, Katrina History Group

Joint Task Force, Katrina History Group

The following documents, photographs, and other materials are being compiled by the many branches of the US military that responded to the aftermath…

Web links, Convention Center

Blog postings, federal government websites, and other Internet materials regarding problematic relief efforts for New Orleans residents.

Convention Center Relief Blockade

This collection features weblinks, documents, photographs, first person accounts, and other information compiled by Dr. Lance Hill and others…

Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

Launched by a San Diego-based web poet and podcaster, Hellicane began modestly enough, featuring three eclectic poems addressing the disaster in…

Deaf Government Area: Touring the Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans

To provide insight into the family and neighborhood history obscured behind miles of devastated structures, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and…

Social Studies of Science Journal

This collection contains essays written in response to Hurricane Katrina, initially presented at the 2005 Social Studies of Science meetings, and…

Rosalie O'Connor Photographs

Rosalie O'Connor is a photographer based in New York City whose best known work centers upon the dance world. A member of American Ballet Theater…

Narrating Hurricane Katrina Through Oral History

Beginning in Fall 2005 under the direction of Director Dr. Lisa Pruitt, the Albert Gore, Sr, Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University,…

Joint Task Force Pelican Photographs

This collection comprises approximately 6600 photographs taken during and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The photographs were collected from…

Baresden Website, Damage of Bay St. Louis Area

This collection comprises photos and stories originally posted on the Baresden website (http://www.baresden.com/) created by Fran and Mike Willumitis…

Oral histories and photographs

The 102nd Military History Detachment interviewed 43 soldiers participating in Joint Task Force-Pelican. Those audio files, together with photographs…

102nd Military History Detachment

The 102nd Military History Detachment from the Kansas Army National Guard was dispatched to Louisiana for seven weeks during the massive recovery…

Storm Hunter's Hurricane Images

This collection comprises approximately 250 images, video, and a log from Mark Robinson and his colleagues, Scott McPartland, George Kourounis, and…

History Department, UNO

Faculty and student observations and research regarding Katrina's impact on New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana

UNO Center Austria

Founded in the fall of 1997, The Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce (Center Austria) at the University of New Orleans enlarges upon more than…

Hurricane Katrina & Rita Clearinghouse

These photos come from the Hurricane Katrina & Rita Clearinghouse, and were contributed by Jay Edwards, John Pine, Patrick Hesp & Barrett…

Student Hurricane Network

The objects that appear in this collection describe the work of the Student Hurricane Network (SHN). In the fall of 2005, law students from across…

Francesco di Santis

The artist's statement as well as many other materials, photographs and other aspects of the project are included.

Portraits

The stories represent 15 months work started by Francesco di Santis days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast.…

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

Written and Narrated by Hundreds. Drawn by Francesco Di Santis. A media project of the Common Ground Collective.

English as a Second Language

More than 100 different nations are represented in Delgado's ESL program, which is the largest one in Louisiana. The students' experiences in the…

Delgado Community College

Work created by students in various programs and courses taught at the oldest and largest community college in Louisiana. The main campus is in New…

Katrina Stories

This collection contains materials related to the play entitled, "Katrina Stories," written by and about the experiences of Tulane Law School…

University of New Orleans

This collection is beginning to represent the wealth of material generated by students, faculty, and administration connected to Louisiana's urban…

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Student Katrina Project

This collection comprises 145 oral history interview transcripts, 142 photographs,and 114 photographic essays and narratives contributed by…

Do You Know What it Means

Collection created by the Do You Know What it Means, New Orleans project.

Beaumont Enterprise

The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Texas) collection comprises individual news stories and entire editions that relate how Hurricanes Katrina and…

Mississippi Coastal Damage

This collection comprises photographs taken in Bay St. Louis, Diamondhead, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, and along Highway 90 by an anonymous…

Pass Christian Residential Damage

These photographs show 15 residences, and the Inn by the Sea condominiums, in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Long Beach, Mississippi Residential Damage

These photographs show damage to 2 residences in Long Beach, Mississippi.

Damage Along Mississippi Coast

These photographs were taken along Highway 90 that runs along the Mississippi Coast.

Gulfport, Mississippi Residential Damage

These photographs show 5 residences in Gulfport.

Diamondhead, Mississippi Residential Damage

These photographs are of one residence in Diamondhead, Mississippi.

Bay St. Louis, Mississippi Residential Damage

These photographs are from a residence in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

New Orleans Video Access Center Short Documentary Series

This collection contains nine short documentaries produced by New Orleans area filmmakers following Hurricane Katrina for the New Orleans Video…

Hurricane Katrina and Rita Photographs from U.S. Coast Guard MSO Port Arthur, TX

The following is a collection of unofficial photographs taken by members of the Marine Safety Office in Port Arthur, Texas following Hurricanes…

Photographs of Biloxi, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama

This series of 88 photos was taken by Wayne Stanley of damage by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi, and of the museum battleship USS Alabama…

Wild Dog Digital's Louisiana and Mississippi Photographs

This collection contains four groupings of photographs taken in October, November, and December 2005 and January 2006 that trace the destruction of…

National Hansens Disease Museum: Photographs, Oral Histories, and Video taken after Hurricane Katrina

Situated on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the National Hansen's Disease Museum in Carville, Louisiana collects,…

Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

This collection comprises images taken by Naval Historical Center Curator, Frank Thompson, of Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama in November…

Katrina's Kids Project Artwork

Katrina's Kids Project was started by a group of Houston area moms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to provide emotional support for young…

Louisiana State Museum Photograph Collection

The Louisiana State Museum's collection comprises 220 photographs of the destruction following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Traversing across…

United States Coast Guard Released Photographs of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

The collection comprises photographs taken by United States Coast Guard (USCG) members that were released to the media that documented the recovery…

St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana after Katrina on video

This video was shot about 6 weeks after the storm hit. The entire parish was flooded with most parts receiving 6 to 24 feet of water. This video was…

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Hurricane Katrina Photos

This collection represents the National Museum of American History's efforts to build a focused collection of objects and photographs that reflects…