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: Broken Mirror Image\"

Collection

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"The city has become a broken mirrored image of itself. It reminds me of what I have a heart for....\" Describes seeing barge that smashed the Industrial Canal levee.

Keywords:

barge, common ground, lower ninth ward, volunteer

Files:

brokenmirrored_d7a8a67987.pdf

Citation

“\"Portrait & Narrative: Broken Mirror Image\",” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed December 26, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26734.

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