Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

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.

For a long time we didn\'t have electricity with which to charge our batteries for our cameras and the stores were not opened for us to purchase new ones so we had to use a disposable camera that we had with us, so these pictures are not as great as we would like. These pictures are of our docks and offices at Dean Blanchard Seafood in Grand Isle, La. Everything was gone. Everything.