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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.

Battered and displaced housing, Venetian Isles/Louisiana, November 2005

A severely damaged, partially collapsed house with exposed insulation and broken windows stands amid scattered debris, with a rusted basketball hoop in the foreground, under a cloudy sky.

Collection

Katrina

Battered and displaced housing, Venetian Isles/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Battered and displaced housing, Venetian Isles/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2487.