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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.

Grounded shrimp trawlers, Buras/Louisiana, November 2005

Three shrimp trawlers sit stranded on marshland amid mud, dead grass, and debris, with a discarded plastic crate filled with water in the foreground.

Collection

Katrina

Grounded shrimp trawlers, Buras/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Grounded shrimp trawlers, Buras/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2538.