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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.

Many refrigerators, with rotting contents like this, line the streets of every…

Interior of a filthy, mold-covered refrigerator packed with discarded beer bottles and cans, wine bottles, a Kraft barbecue sauce bottle, and a grime-caked Styrofoam Hooters takeout container.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

Many refrigerators, with rotting contents like this, line the streets of every neighborhood wherever I went.

Original title

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Citation

“Many refrigerators, with rotting contents like this, line the streets of every…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3577.