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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.

Items tagged “Bank Street” (1 total)

Black-and-white 1940s snapshot of three young women sitting on a blanket on a grassy curb, with a residential street lined by shotgun-style houses and trees behind them.

Ruby Comisky on bank street in mid city, mid 1940's. New Orleans. This image was collected…