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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.

Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

Pink and green cottage facade with two shuttered French doors flanked by metal panels, an orange spray-painted X search marking reading "9-11, 3-505, NG, ØA" on the wall between them.

This little pink and green cottage bears the mark of the house to house search. Something about the symmetry of this image is unsettling-given the chaos from which it emerged

Citation

“Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/603.