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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 “Fashion” (1 total)

Sepia-toned photograph of a Carnival Ball, with a masked king and queen in elaborate costumes leading a procession across a dance floor, flanked by two masked attendants and a court of guests, beneath banners reading "1947" and "1957."

Carnival Ball. This image is from the archive of Ron Chapman, Professor of History at…