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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.

NewOrleans1.jpgsatellite

Side-by-side satellite views of downtown New Orleans near the Superdome, dated August 28, 2002 and September 2, 2005, showing widespread flooding, darkened streets, and smoke haze in the later image.

Collection

Joint Task Force Pelican Photographs

Citation

“NewOrleans1.jpgsatellite,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/21884.