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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.

President Bush meets with Coast Guardsmen.

President Bush, in a checked shirt, shakes hands with a uniformed Coast Guardsman while a crowd of personnel looks on in a parking lot; a timestamp reads "3:50 PM" in the corner.

Collection

Katrina photos of New Orleans and immediate areas

President Bush meets with Coast Guardsmen.

Original title

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Citation

“President Bush meets with Coast Guardsmen.,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3949.