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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.

Smashed tree opposite levee breach, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

An overturned, gutted car lies beside a massive splintered tree trunk, with debris, a fallen utility pole, and wreckage scattered across the muddy ground.

Collection

Katrina

Smashed tree opposite levee breach, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Smashed tree opposite levee breach, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2461.