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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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I live in the Northern Virginia area and was taken back by the damage Hurricane Katrina left along the Gulf. In response to the devastation, our church youth director gathered together a group of adults and youth that…

A graveyard that was tore apart and emptied by the storm.

Charcoal portrait of Nicki Sabalu. Text begins: \"Among my first days in New Orleans a woman invited me to visit her home on Congress Street (Upper Ninth Ward)...\"

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Charcoal portrait of Rodleen Getsic. Text begins: \" I moved to New Orleans just before the anniversary of Katrina...\" Describes looking for work. Explains personal meaning of her new fleur-de-lis tattoo.

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer from private liberal arts college. Text begins: \"I came down to Common Ground because I wanted to be involved firsthand in a genuine struggle for social justice.\" Describes…

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"Fight 4 something or 4 nothing fall.\"

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"I\'ve read that all modern cities sit atop erased lanscapes...\" Mentions how locals lament all the places the city lost even before Katrina. Comments on…

Charcoal portrait of a Common Ground volunteer from Wesleyan University. She describes her sense of \"home\" and how it changed after working in New Orleans. She praises a New Orleanian named Delanzy who got Common…

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Charcoal portrait of Elliot. Elliot\'s narrative covers 3 pages. Text begins: \"I never knew anything about New Orleans before I came down here, besides that it was the birthplace of jazz and Mardi Gras is a big…

Portrait & Narrative…

Charcoal portrait of Dar, a Common Ground volunteer who describes how she came to help build the health clinic.

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