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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 “Katrina Fema Louisiana New Orleans Trailer Hurricane” (1 total)

A white FEMA travel trailer partly covered in climbing vines, with a spray-painted red heart on its side and a fleur-de-lis-decorated propane tank cover topped by a smiley-face hitch ball.

The infamous FEMA trailer, part of the New Orleans landscape since 2005.