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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.

Old U. S. Mint and copper section torn from its roof, French Quarter/New Orleans,…

Large torn sheets of green-patinated copper roofing lie crumpled in the foreground, with a red-brick, three-story building and parked vehicles visible across the street behind damaged scaffolding.

Collection

Katrina

Old U. S. Mint and copper section torn from its roof, French Quarter/New Orleans, September 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Old U. S. Mint and copper section torn from its roof, French Quarter/New Orleans,…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2456.