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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 “Communion” (4 total)

Sepia-toned studio portrait of two children in First Communion attire, a girl in a white dress and veil holding an umbrella and a boy in a white suit holding a hat, mounted on a brown cardboard frame with the "Rex Studio, New Orleans, LA" stamp below.

First Communion. This image is from the archive at Xavier University. Xavier University of…

Five girls in white First Communion dresses and veils stand in a row holding prayer books, posed in front of a brick wall with shuttered windows.

First Communion. This image is from the archive at Xavier University. Xavier University of…

Sepia-toned cabinet card photograph of a young child with short hair, wearing a pleated white dress with a ruffled collar, standing beside a draped chair and holding a thin stick; studio mark reads "Barnes & Lhoste, 73 Royal St., New Orleans, LA."

First Communion. This image is from the archive at Xavier University. Xavier University of…

Black-and-white photo of a large outdoor gathering of children in white communion dresses and suits seated in rows in a churchyard, with clergy and altar servers standing among them and adults watching behind.

Corpus Christi, Second Solemn Communion, June 2, 1918. Xavier University of Louisiana is a…