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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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.

Items (27 total)

Charcoal portrait of volunteer who arrived in Slidell, LA on February 18, 2006 and stayed at Bayou Liberty Camp. Describes flooded homeowners Donna and Emery and their problems with insurance and FEMA. Donna has heart…

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Charcoal portraits of Common Ground volunteer from Cleveland, Ohio. Gave up sprink break along with friends Dan and Jon. Describes \"lack of ease\" in role as viewer of Lower Ninth Ward devestation. Ponders his motives…

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Complete text is: \"Some Trotskyists once asked me if I thought the revolution would come in my lifetime. I told them nuh-uh. Now I think it might happen. This is progress.…

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"I love to be at Common Ground. Since March of 2006. The first time to volunteer gutting and getting mold at the Lady\'s House, the women & children center. My…

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Complete text: \"There is no \'they\' here on the ground. That isn\'t a prescence here like I expected. Residents, workers, volunteers. Three overlapping rings of rebuilding,…

Charcoal portrait of Nicki Sabalu. Text begins: \"Among my first days in New Orleans a woman invited me to visit her home on Congress Street (Upper Ninth Ward)...\"

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Charcoal portrait of Rodleen Getsic. Text begins: \" I moved to New Orleans just before the anniversary of Katrina...\" Describes looking for work. Explains personal meaning of her new fleur-de-lis tattoo.

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer from private liberal arts college. Text begins: \"I came down to Common Ground because I wanted to be involved firsthand in a genuine struggle for social justice.\" Describes…

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"Fight 4 something or 4 nothing fall.\"

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"I\'ve read that all modern cities sit atop erased lanscapes...\" Mentions how locals lament all the places the city lost even before Katrina. Comments on…