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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.

A stack of worn brass or metal nameplates, one marked "OPEN," fanned out on a concrete…

Collection

Artifact Storage facilities

Original title

MVC-028S.JPG

Citation

“A stack of worn brass or metal nameplates, one marked "OPEN," fanned out on a concrete…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2939.