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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.

Bagging spoiled food removed from refrigerators, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November…

Two workers in white protective suits, helmets, and respirator masks sort spoiled food into plastic sheeting amid rows of discarded refrigerators at a hurricane debris dump.

Collection

Katrina

Bagging spoiled food removed from refrigerators, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Bagging spoiled food removed from refrigerators, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2562.