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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.

View from the 17th Street Canal breach, Lakeview/New Orleans, December 2005

Uprooted tree stumps and debris surround a muddy, flooded area near a damaged brick house with a tarped roof; construction barricades and a truck sit at left near a cleared road.

Collection

Katrina

View from the 17th Street Canal breach, Lakeview/New Orleans, December 2005

Original title

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Citation

“View from the 17th Street Canal breach, Lakeview/New Orleans, December 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2572.