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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.

Housing rubble, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, November 2005

Devastated homes with collapsed walls and a crushed truck stand amid scattered debris, broken bricks, pipes, and an overturned bathtub in the foreground.

Collection

Katrina

Housing rubble, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Housing rubble, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2543.