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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 ruins with tattered flag, Holly Beach/Louisiana, December 2005

A tattered, hole-torn American flag flies from a rusted pole amid the concrete foundation and scattered debris of a destroyed beachfront house, with the shoreline visible in the distance.

Collection

Rita

House ruins with tattered flag, Holly Beach/Louisiana, December 2005

Original title

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Citation

“House ruins with tattered flag, Holly Beach/Louisiana, December 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2634.