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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.

New Orleans painter Phil Sandusky at work, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, January 2006

Painter at an outdoor easel captures a devastated residential street on canvas, with a collapsed house, abandoned car, and debris visible behind him in the Lower 9th Ward.

Collection

Katrina

New Orleans painter Phil Sandusky at work, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, January 2006

Original title

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Citation

“New Orleans painter Phil Sandusky at work, Lower 9th Ward/New Orleans, January 2006,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2614.