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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 “Safe” (1 total)

Debris-strewn lot in the Lower 9th Ward with two tires, a rusted wooden box, and a gray safe sitting on cracked pavement amid storm wreckage and standing water.

Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA