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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.

A large oak near Dante St. is prepared for the debris pile.

Large sawed sections of an oak tree trunk piled in front of a white shotgun-style house with columned porch, a search/rescue marking in pink spray paint visible on the siding near the door.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

A large oak near Dante St. is prepared for the debris pile.

Original title

P1010142.JPG

Citation

“A large oak near Dante St. is prepared for the debris pile.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3699.