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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.

Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

A girl in goggles and a tie-dye shirt gestures toward an uprooted tree's muddy root ball with an exposed black corrugated pipe, surrounded by floodwater.

The ground became so sodden that many mature trees were uprooted along with, in this case, underground electric power lines.

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“Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2024.

Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

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