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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 “Pet” (2 total)

My parents and I, their dog and my cat, came back to New Orleans on September 22, 2005 (my…

Grainy black-and-white photo of a man and woman seated on either side of an old console television, each holding a small pet dog, in a living room, 1949.

Great-grandmother Elaine and great-grandfather Emmeet of Nina Haygood. Pictured in the…