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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.

candlesDetail

Three candles mounted atop glass and plastic bottles hang from wires in a dark, exposed-beam structure, their flames glowing against the shadowed wooden framework.

Collection

Neighborhoods

detail of Aviators St. installation by David Sullivan photo by Courtney Egan

Katrina
New Orleans
art
arts council of new orleans
community
gentilly
gutted
house
installation
neighborhood
neighborhoods project
new
orleans

Citation

“candlesDetail,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/28246.