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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.

Some Lakeview residents are definitely keeping a good sense of humor!

A makeshift mannequin figure with a white mask face, curly black wig, sunglasses, and a red bandana, dressed in a dark blazer and scarf, stands amid piles of storm debris outside a house.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

Some Lakeview residents are definitely keeping a good sense of humor!

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Citation

“Some Lakeview residents are definitely keeping a good sense of humor!,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3706.