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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.

As crazy as this sounds, I'm confident these items will be here the next time the owner…

Two porcelain ewers with hand-painted portraits of women lie on dead leaves and dirt, alongside a round painted plaque and a pitcher, left outdoors amid storm debris.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

As crazy as this sounds, I'm confident these items will be here the next time the owner returns.

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Citation

“As crazy as this sounds, I'm confident these items will be here the next time the owner…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3602.