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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.

Unloading shrimp amidst the devastation, Delacroix/Louisiana, November 2005

Men unload crates from a trailer beside a severely storm-damaged house with a collapsed, tilted roof, a shrimp boat and fishing nets in the foreground, Delacroix, Louisiana, November 2005.

Collection

Katrina

Unloading shrimp amidst the devastation, Delacroix/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Unloading shrimp amidst the devastation, Delacroix/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2524.