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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 “Traviesa” (2 total)

A photograph of two women, Trish and Verna, smiling together is woven into a hole in an orange plastic safety fence, with a dark blurred interior visible behind it.

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A large spherical sculpture made of orange plastic safety netting, embedded with small photographs, hangs suspended inside a gutted room with exposed wooden studs and a tiled floor.

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