-

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.

Tying up garbage bags filled with spoiled food, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November…

Workers in white protective suits, hard hats, and respirators tie up large plastic garbage bags amid discarded refrigerators at a sprawling debris dump, with an excavator and trees in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Tying up garbage bags filled with spoiled food, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November 2006

Original title

20051106_MG_8922.jpg

Citation

“Tying up garbage bags filled with spoiled food, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2563.