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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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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. First line of text: \"What I have seen here has blown my mind...\" Talks about compassion, the need to question what is going on in the world.

\"Portrait &…

Charcoal portrait of young African American man who volunteered with Common Ground. In text he describes walking through the Ninth Ward to distribute CG newspaper, seeing desolate landscape but people with strength.

Portrait & Narrative…

Charcoal portrait of Alvin Marigny. Text says: \r\n\"I am in a lot of pain. Seem like I don\'t have nothing to gain. Thing I have to say nobody give a dam anyway but what can I really do to make a change when everything…

Portrait & Narrative…

Charcoal portrait of A. (Audrianne?) James of Forstall Street in the Lower Ninth Ward. James describes her reaction to Hurricane Katrina. Quote from narrative: \"Katrina you was a beast. I am taking back my hood.....\"

\"Portrait &…

One of The Post-Katrina Portraits (#1)\r\nDrawing by Francesco di Santis. Narrative by portrait subject.\r\nA media project of the Common Ground Collective.\r\n

Francesco Portrait…

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