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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.

Overturned truck with sofa, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, January 2006

An overturned red Mack truck cab lies amid debris, with a mattress tangled in its wreckage, surrounded by piles of splintered wood and a damaged house in the background.

Collection

Katrina

Overturned truck with sofa, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, January 2006

Original title

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Citation

“Overturned truck with sofa, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, January 2006,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2600.