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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.

Everything is tossed onto front yards for trash pickup.

A toilet sits amid piles of debris, broken drywall, and insulation on a front lawn, with a brick house numbered 7224 visible in the background.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

Everything is tossed onto front yards for trash pickup.

Original title

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Citation

“Everything is tossed onto front yards for trash pickup.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3662.