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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.

Devastation along Jourdan Avenue, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

Collapsed and flattened houses with scattered debris line a street, with a small white church steeple visible among the wreckage and intact tree line in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Devastation along Jourdan Avenue, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Devastation along Jourdan Avenue, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2458.