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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.

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Excerpted from September 7, 2005 article in The Columbia Daily Tribune: \r\nNunez says they caught a barge on the Mississippi River to the Algiers Ferry. There, they ended up on a stolen bus that took him and other…

Stolen Bus

Excerpted from an October 2005, Danville, Kentucky, newspaper interview with a woman who waited near the Algiers Ferry Terminal for more than two days to be evacuated:\r\nBurris, her two children, the couple and their…

Algiers Ferry

Sgt. Cliff Ortis of the Louisiana Wildlife Agents Association describes his experiences helping evacuees from St. Bernard Parish move from the Algiers Ferry Landing and into National Guard trucks and other vehicles. The…

Algiers Ferry…

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