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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.

Section of breached levee, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

A flooded car partially submerged near a breached levee, with chunks of broken concrete scattered along the shoreline and a large blue lift bridge and cranes visible in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Section of breached levee, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Section of breached levee, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, September 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2463.