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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.

Buried car across from levee breach, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

A mud-caked, crushed sedan sits buried in debris, its roof crumpled and a wooden plank pierced through it; a rusted truck and scattered wreckage fill the background.

Collection

Katrina

Buried car across from levee breach, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Buried car across from levee breach, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2462.