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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.

Salvaged possessions and housing rubble along Lakeview Drive, Slidell/Louisiana, November…

Salvaged dishes, pots, and small household items laid out on a concrete slab beside a pile of broken bricks, with collapsed houses partially submerged in floodwater and a distant neighborhood in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Salvaged possessions and housing rubble along Lakeview Drive, Slidell/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Salvaged possessions and housing rubble along Lakeview Drive, Slidell/Louisiana, November…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2482.