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.

\"Portrait & Narrative of Volunteer from February 2006\"

Collection

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

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.

Keywords:

common ground, compassion, lifechanging, volunteer

Files:

blownmind_9ecaf2efc3.pdf

Citation

“\"Portrait & Narrative of Volunteer from February 2006\",” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 16, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26729.

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