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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.

Staircase and pilings of destroyed home, Delacroix/Louisiana, November 2005

Destroyed home reduced to scattered debris and bare steel pilings, with a plywood sign reading "Scott Lopez 1501" propped amid the wreckage under a clear sky.

Collection

Katrina

Staircase and pilings of destroyed home, Delacroix/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Staircase and pilings of destroyed home, Delacroix/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2522.