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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 “Statue” (3 total)

Brick building with a green awning marked "6169" over an entrance walkway leading to a fountain, flanked by shuttered windows and overgrown plants.

Near Lakeshore, New Orleans, LA

A small statue of the Virgin Mary stands in a shrine in front of a house numbered 4924, with a plywood-boarded window and spray-painted marks on the brick wall nearby.

4924 Near Lakeshore, New Orleans, LA

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…