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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.

Animal rescue signage, Arabi/Louisiana, January 2006

Exterior wall of a Family Dentistry building spray-painted with handwritten animal rescue information, including directions to St. Claude and Press St., a note that evacuated animals were shipped to Lamar Dixon and California, and "St. Bernard Parish."

Collection

Katrina

Animal rescue signage, Arabi/Louisiana, January 2006

Original title

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Citation

“Animal rescue signage, Arabi/Louisiana, January 2006,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2605.