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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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.

a co-volunteer about to open the door of the home we were assigned to work on

A volunteer in a red shirt and work gloves stands on the porch of a damaged house, reaching for a blue door; a United Church of Christ Disaster Response sign is placed in the yard below.

a co-volunteer about to open the door of the home we were assigned to work on

Original title

Item 13893

Citation

“a co-volunteer about to open the door of the home we were assigned to work on,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/13893.