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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.

Most of the light posts were destroyed.

A bent, broken light post lies diagonally across a rocky shoreline beside a seawall, with calm open water and clear blue sky in the background.

Collection

Metairie and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - 10.23.05

Most of the light posts were destroyed.

Original title

P1010073.JPG

Citation

“Most of the light posts were destroyed.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3499.