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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.

Auditorium seats and cinder blocks, Cameron Elementary School, Cameron/Louisiana, December…

Rows of red auditorium seats buried under piles of broken cinder blocks and debris beneath a partially collapsed roof, with a "Family Dollar" sign visible across the street.

Collection

Rita

Auditorium seats and cinder blocks, Cameron Elementary School, Cameron/Louisiana, December 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Auditorium seats and cinder blocks, Cameron Elementary School, Cameron/Louisiana, December…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2661.