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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.

House wreckage, Yscloskey/Louisiana, January 2006

A freestanding concrete staircase leads nowhere amid scattered debris and collapsed houses, with bare trees and a partly cloudy sky above the storm-damaged landscape.

Collection

Katrina

House wreckage, Yscloskey/Louisiana, January 2006

Original title

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Citation

“House wreckage, Yscloskey/Louisiana, January 2006,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2610.