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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.

Remains of waterfront dwellings along Lakeview Drive, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005

Weathered wooden pilings stand in calm water where waterfront homes once stood, with a tattered American flag on a post amid debris and straw in the foreground, a distant bridge on the horizon.

Collection

Katrina

Remains of waterfront dwellings along Lakeview Drive, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Remains of waterfront dwellings along Lakeview Drive, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2467.