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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.

Items tagged “Jazz” (9 total)

Black-and-white photo outside Gallier Hall's columned entrance: two men embrace while a third in a suit carries a briefcase, and a man holding a brass instrument sits on the steps nearby.

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Gallier Hall on St Charles…

Black-and-white photo of a woman in a straw hat seated between large stone columns at Gallier Hall, head bowed, during Alvin Batiste's funeral.

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Gallier Hall on St Charles…

Black-and-white photo of two boys dressed in suits outside a columned building; the older boy holds a saxophone, with text overlay reading "2007 © Craig Morse, Culture Subculture Photography."

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Gallier Hall on St Charles…

Black-and-white photo of a man in a cap and sunglasses sitting on stone steps holding a saxophone, dressed in a shirt, tie, and dark trousers.

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Gallier Hall on St Charles…

Black-and-white photo of pallbearers in dark suits carrying a wooden casket down stone steps outside a building entrance, with mourners following behind.

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Gallier Hall on St Charles…

A white hearse drives down a city street following a crowd of mourners in a second line parade, with downtown high-rise buildings in the background.

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. The hearse carrying the body of…

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Gallier Hall on St Charles…

Black-and-white photo of a man in a hat and sunglasses raising his arm during a jazz funeral procession, with musicians playing clarinets and saxophones behind him and city skyscrapers in the background.

May 12, 2007 - New Orleans, LA. Central Business District. Poydras Street. At the Jazz…

A man in a striped shirt plays clarinet beside a large plastic dress artwork printed with satellite-style waterway maps and a street grid, inside a gutted room with wooden furniture and a window.

Ben Schenck of Panorama Jazz Band