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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.

Party in Patchecos' backyard, Meroux Lane, da Lane, circa 1980s.

Group photo of about fifteen people posed closely together outdoors in front of bare trees, with a wheelbarrow at right; the photograph's edges show heavy water and chemical damage with orange and yellow discoloration.

Collection

Do You Know What it Means

Party in Patchecos' backyard, Meroux Lane, da Lane, circa 1980s.

Original title

Item 25741

karen patcheco
st bernard parish

Citation

“Party in Patchecos' backyard, Meroux Lane, da Lane, circa 1980s.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/25741.