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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.

Religious volunteers gutting houses, Arabi/Louisiana, November 2005

Workers in yellow hazmat suits push a wheelbarrow past piles of storm debris in front of damaged houses, one displaying an American flag on its porch.

Collection

Katrina

Religious volunteers gutting houses, Arabi/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Religious volunteers gutting houses, Arabi/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2551.