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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.

Mary looks over a dying sego palm on Sage Street.

A statue of Mary stands amid yellow planters and dried shrubs, overlooking a withered sego palm with brown fronds spread across the ground nearby.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

Mary looks over a dying sego palm on Sage Street.

Original title

P1010069.JPG

Citation

“Mary looks over a dying sego palm on Sage Street.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3634.