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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 fairly affluent area of New Orleans and yet still no garbage is picked up...almost a…

A large pile of debris and discarded household items sits on a grassy curb in front of a brick house; a date stamp in the corner reads "JUL 25 2006."

A fairly affluent area of New Orleans and yet still no garbage is picked up...almost a year later!

Original title

Item 4173

Citation

“A fairly affluent area of New Orleans and yet still no garbage is picked up...almost a…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/4173.