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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.

Typical devastation, Yscloskey/Louisiana, January 2006

Flattened debris field with scattered cinder blocks, appliances, and twisted metal roofing surrounding a damaged mobile home, standing water pooling among the wreckage beneath bare winter trees.

Collection

Katrina

Typical devastation, Yscloskey/Louisiana, January 2006

Original title

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Citation

“Typical devastation, Yscloskey/Louisiana, January 2006,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2611.