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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.

Sign for gutting services near Lakefront, New Orleans, December 2005

Cut tree logs stacked in front of a damaged stucco house, with a handwritten cardboard sign reading "Architecture Students Gut. 813 4346" propped against the wood.

Collection

Katrina

Sign for gutting services near Lakefront, New Orleans, December 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Sign for gutting services near Lakefront, New Orleans, December 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2589.