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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 “Nuns” (4 total)

Black-and-white group portrait of girls and young women in matching dark dresses, arranged in rows outdoors in front of a brick building with shuttered windows, some seated on chairs in front.

Sisters of the Holy Family. This image is from the archive at Xavier University. Xavier…

Aged, creased photograph of three nuns standing on a porch behind rows of young girls in white dresses, some holding candles, posed on wooden steps outdoors.

Sisters of the Holy Family. This image is from the archive at Xavier University. Xavier…

Group portrait of four nuns, the Sisters of the Holy Family, surrounded by rows of men in suits on a building's front steps decorated with American flags and bunting.

Sisters of the Holy Family. This image is from the archive at Xavier University. Xavier…

Rows of nuns in habits sit at desks reading books in a classroom, with chalkboards reading "Sight Singing" and "Summer Normal, New Orleans, La. 1922" visible at the front.

Sisters of the Holy Family. Xavier University of Louisiana is a private, coed, liberal…