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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.

Loading refrigerators into baling machine, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November 2005

A hydraulic grapple crane lowers a crushed refrigerator onto a large pile of discarded appliances at an outdoor debris site, with trees and a hazy sky in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Loading refrigerators into baling machine, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Loading refrigerators into baling machine, Katrina Dump/New Orleans East, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2565.