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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.

Pigeons make a meal off of moldy French bread along the sidewalk by St. Claude.

A flock of pigeons pecks at moldy bread and debris scattered across a cracked sidewalk near an overflowing green trash bin and broken concrete rubble.

Collection

Ten Weeks after Katrina - 11.07.05

Pigeons make a meal off of moldy French bread along the sidewalk by St. Claude.

Original title

P1010156.JPG

Citation

“Pigeons make a meal off of moldy French bread along the sidewalk by St. Claude.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3710.