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.

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Collection

Metairie and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - 10.23.05

Not long ago, this furniture was part of a home. It, like everything else destroyed by Katrina, is tossed into the debris pile and will end up in the new mountain of debris growing on Pontchartrain Blvd.

Citation

“P1010040.JPG,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed October 22, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3471.

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