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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 “St Peter and Paul Church” (3 total)

A wrought-iron gate with crossed diagonal bars partially obscures a faded religious statue group and cross in the background, in this green-toned 1942 photograph.

St. Peter and Paul church statue, New Orleans, 1942. This image is from the archive of Ron…

A priest in cassock stands outside a brick church building with two women nearby, one holding his hand, in this cracked 1947 photograph from St. Peter and Paul church, New Orleans.

Robert Bruillette's aunt Evelyn with Father Joe Benson Sr. outside of St. Peter and Paul…

Two young girls in white communion dresses and hats pose arm-in-arm outside a brick school building, with a bicycle and other children visible in the background.

Mother of Robert Bruillette and her sister at sunday school first communion, St. Peter and…