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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.

Trish&VernaOnSphere

A photograph of two women, Trish and Verna, smiling together is woven into a hole in an orange plastic safety fence, with a dark blurred interior visible behind it.

Collection

Neighborhoods

Close up of Trish and Verna

photo by Jonathan Traviesa

Katrina
art installation
arts council of new orleans
gentilly
gentilly exhibit
group show
gutted house
la
neighborhood
neighborhoods project
traviesa
usa

Citation

“Trish&VernaOnSphere,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/28256.