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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.

removing the refrigerator which had not been opened in over a year!! (we didn't open it…

Volunteers in protective suits and masks carry a mattress past a large appliance on a porch, with a chain-link fence sign reading "United Church of Christ Disaster Response" in the foreground.

removing the refrigerator which had not been opened in over a year!! (we didn't open it either!)

Original title

Item 13897

Citation

“removing the refrigerator which had not been opened in over a year!! (we didn't open it…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/13897.