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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.

"View Vie" Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA

Damaged brick building with "VIEW" spray-painted on the wall, a dark empty window, and fallen utility poles with insulators and wires in the foreground.

"View Vie" Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA

Original title

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9th ward
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina
Rita
destruction
gulf
gulfregion
home
house
hurricane
lower9thward
lowerninthward
neworleans
ninthward
nola
nolawords
postkatrina
view
viewvie

Citation

“"View Vie" Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/28635.