Collections
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This collection represents the National Museum of American History's efforts to build a focused collection of objects and photographs that reflects specific aspects of the hurricane’s impact along the Gulf Coast, the rescue of survivors and...[more]
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This video was shot about 6 weeks after the storm hit. The entire parish was flooded with most parts receiving 6 to 24 feet of water. This video was brought before congress, by local levee board directors. Requests for its use has come from LSU...[more]
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The collection comprises photographs taken by United States Coast Guard (USCG) members that were released to the media that documented the recovery and relief efforts by various USCG units during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The Louisiana State Museum's collection comprises 220 photographs of the destruction following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Traversing across Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Cameron, and Vermillion parishes, photographer...[more]
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NEIGHBORHOODS is a series of site-specific, multidisciplinary art installations set up in flood-damaged houses in New Orleans. The May 2007 installation, NEIGHBORHOODS: 2624 BRADISH PLACE was located in and around the gutted ground floor of...[more]
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Katrina's Kids Project was started by a group of Houston area moms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to provide emotional support for young evacuees through art. The project gave hundreds of children staying in the Reliant/Astrodome shelters in...[more]
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This collection comprises images taken by Naval Historical Center Curator, Frank Thompson, of Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama in November 2005. The park exhibits Battleship Alabama, submarine USS Drum, and aircraft from different eras in...[more]
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Situated on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the National Hansen's Disease Museum in Carville, Louisiana collects, preserves, and interprets the medical and cultural artifacts of the Carville Historic District, and promotes...[more]
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This collection contains four groupings of photographs taken in October, November, and December 2005 and January 2006 that trace the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Metairie, and Gentilly, Louisiana; and in Bay St. Louis,...[more]
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This series of 88 photos was taken by Wayne Stanley of damage by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi, and of the museum battleship USS Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
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The following is a collection of unofficial photographs taken by members of the Marine Safety Office in Port Arthur, Texas following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. MSO Port Arthur personnel were among the first Coast Guard units to enter New...[more]
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This collection contains nine short documentaries produced by New Orleans area filmmakers following Hurricane Katrina for the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC). NOVAC's mission is to foster the creation and appreciation of independent,...[more]
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This collection comprises photographs taken in Bay St. Louis, Diamondhead, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, and along Highway 90 by an anonymous photographer who assessed damage to homes on the Mississippi Coast following Hurricane Katrina.
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These photographs are from a residence in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
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These photographs are of one residence in Diamondhead, Mississippi.
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These photographs show 5 residences in Gulfport.
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These photographs were taken along Highway 90 that runs along the Mississippi Coast.
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These photographs show damage to 2 residences in Long Beach, Mississippi.
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These photographs show 15 residences, and the Inn by the Sea condominiums, in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
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The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, Texas) collection comprises individual news stories and entire editions that relate how Hurricanes Katrina and Rita affected Southeast Texas. The collection begins in late August 2005 with stories about Katrina...[more]
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Collection created by the Do You Know What it Means, New Orleans project.
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This collection comprises 145 oral history interview transcripts, 142 photographs,and 114 photographic essays and narratives contributed by Instructor Dr. Buck T. Foster and his history students from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in...[more]
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This collection is beginning to represent the wealth of material generated by students, faculty, and administration connected to Louisiana's urban research university. Ultimately, a great variety of colleges and degree programs will be...[more]
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Founded in the fall of 1997, The Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce (Center Austria) at the University of New Orleans enlarges upon more than two decades of cooperation between the University of Innsbruck and a Sister City Agreement between the...[more]
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Faculty and student observations and research regarding Katrina's impact on New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana
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UNO's Special Collections contains original archive and manuscript collections, rare books, the UNO Faculty Authors Collection, original copies of all of the university's theses and dissertations, and is the location of the library's new digital...[more]
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This collection contains materials related to the play entitled, "Katrina Stories," written by and about the experiences of Tulane Law School students during and after Hurricane Katrina. Law student, Mary Nagle, wrote and directed this...[more]
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Work created by students in various programs and courses taught at the oldest and largest community college in Louisiana. The main campus is in New Orleans' City Park neighborhood.
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More than 100 different nations are represented in Delgado's ESL program, which is the largest one in Louisiana. The students' experiences in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina offer insight into the international reaction to the flooding and...[more]
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Written and Narrated by Hundreds. Drawn by Francesco Di Santis. A media project of the Common Ground Collective.
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The stories represent 15 months work started by Francesco di Santis days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. di Santis allows anyone to reproduce his artwork as long as the image is not separated from the text...[more]
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The artist's statement as well as many other materials, photographs and other aspects of the project are included.
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The objects that appear in this collection describe the work of the Student Hurricane Network (SHN). In the fall of 2005, law students from across the country formed the SHN as a national association dedicated to providing long-term assistance to...[more]
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These photos come from the Hurricane Katrina & Rita Clearinghouse, and were contributed by Jay Edwards, John Pine, Patrick Hesp & Barrett Kennedy. This clearinghouse has been established at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge to...[more]
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This collection comprises approximately 250 images, video, and a log from Mark Robinson and his colleagues, Scott McPartland, George Kourounis, and Dave Lewinson while chasing Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Mark Robinson is a Canadian stormchaser...[more]
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The 102nd Military History Detachment from the Kansas Army National Guard was dispatched to Louisiana for seven weeks during the massive recovery efforts following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to document the work done by the Army National Guard....[more]
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The 102nd Military History Detachment interviewed 43 soldiers participating in Joint Task Force-Pelican. Those audio files, together with photographs taken by the interviewees, may be found in this collection.
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This collection comprises approximately 6600 photographs taken during and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The photographs were collected from several sources.
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This collection comprises photos and stories originally posted on the Baresden website (http://www.baresden.com/) created by Fran and Mike Willumitis to tell the story of their evacuation from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to North Carolina. Also...[more]
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Beginning in Fall 2005 under the direction of Director Dr. Lisa Pruitt, the Albert Gore, Sr, Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University, pursued an initiative to document the experiences of as many Katrina evacuees and first responders...[more]
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Rosalie O'Connor is a photographer based in New York City whose best known work centers upon the dance world. A member of American Ballet Theater (ABT) in the 1980s and 1990s, Ms. O'Connor started photographing the ABT and other dance...[more]
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This collection contains essays written in response to Hurricane Katrina, initially presented at the 2005 Social Studies of Science meetings, and recently published in the society's journal, Social Studies of Science, volume 37, no. 1 (February...[more]
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To provide insight into the family and neighborhood history obscured behind miles of devastated structures, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and community activist Greta Gladney organized a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward. Director of the...[more]
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Launched by a San Diego-based web poet and podcaster, Hellicane began modestly enough, featuring three eclectic poems addressing the disaster in different ways (http://hellicane.blogspot.com). Within a few days, nearly a thousand visitors from around...[more]
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This collection features weblinks, documents, photographs, first person accounts, and other information compiled by Dr. Lance Hill and others regarding the lengthy delay experienced by thousands of African-American evacuees who waited several days...[more]
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Blog postings, federal government websites, and other Internet materials regarding problematic relief efforts for New Orleans residents.
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Documents and images regarding delayed relief efforts for New Orleans residents while thousands of St. Bernard residents were evacuated by barge, boat, and bus.
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The following documents, photographs, and other materials are being compiled by the many branches of the US military that responded to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Al Koenig, LTC, FA, USAR (Ft. Gillem, Georgia) is coordinating the...[more]
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Published articles and other materials stemming from the work done by members of the Joint Task Force, Katrina History Group
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Photographs and stories from the 159th Fighter Wing.
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Visual artists are responding to the aftermath of New Orleans' flooding in a variety of ways. The group and individual work within this collection represents some of the creativity developing in the months and years following Katrina.
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Beginning in 2006, multimedia installations in gutted homes were presented by a coalition of New Orleans artists. The "Neighborhoods" project, originated by Robert Vicknair, is a series of one-night-only site-specific art and sound installations in...[more]
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The Katrina-themed work of New Orleans artist Maxx Sizeler. Maxx Sizeler's website:
http://www.maxxsizeler.com/index.htm
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The Katrina-themed work of New Orleans artist Courtney Egan. Courtney Egan's website:
http://www.chaoshag.com/
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Post-Katrina photographs by Lorraine Monseu. Monseu is a visual artist who also worked as a circus sign painter, actress, clown, and stiltwalker in New Orleans from 1995 to 2006. She was forced to relocate because of high post-Katrina housing costs....[more]
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Students in the Media Arts program of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts created video interpretations of their return to the city in spring 2006.
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Shortly after filmmaker Helen Hill was murdered on January 4, 2007 in her New Orleans home, artists and friends worldwide began to memorialize Helen.
http://www.helenhill.org/news/
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Local authors are documenting and interpreting the crises unfolding in post-Katrina New Orleans, providing indepth detail beyond the grasp of many journalists.
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Mary Gehman has actively participated in the New Orleans writing community since the 1970s. She was greatly involved in developing Margaret Media, Inc., which was established in 1981 in New Orleans as the publisher of Distaff, a women's monthly...[more]
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Dr. Andre Perry is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of New Orleans. He received his doctorate from the University of Maryland - College Park in the Spring of 2004. Dr. Perry's primary research interest revolves around...[more]
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I had just retired from teaching elementary school in Jefferson Parish and bought property in Lacombe. This was in the summer of 2005 just before Katrina struck. I have a BA in art from Southeastern Louisiana College, but spent 30 years as a...[more]
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University of New Orleans alumna and Community Activist on behalf of those with Special Needs.
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Internationally celebrated artist Rolland Golden resides in Folsom, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi. A New Orleans native, Golden has had over 100 one-man shows in galleries, cultural centers and museums in the US, as well as one-man touring...[more]
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Information about the 50-year career of one of New Orleans and the Southern region's most significant living artists, including family photographs, publications, and other materials.
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Photographs, video clips, journal entries, and other materials documenting the effects of Katrina on the residence of Rolland Golland and his family. The effects upon his French Quarter art gallery and the New Orleans neighborhoods he once resided...[more]
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A chronicle of the more than two years of work required to develop the paintings chronicled via writings, sketches, planning documents, and other materials.
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This collection represents materials submitted by students, faculty, staff, and administration of the leading post secondary institution serving the five parishes of southwest Louisiana. The collection includes personal narratives and reflections,...[more]
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Faculty and student research and reflections on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. McNeese played host to over 200 displaced students from New Orleans after Katrina who were forced to evacuate a second time when Rita struck southwest Louisiana on...[more]
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Reflections of New Orleans High School Students after the storm.
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The Mississippi Center for Nonprofits is the state's only nonprofit management resource center. For the thousands of nonprofit organizations across the state, the Center is the primary source of management training, technical information, advice,...[more]
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When the levees broke, nothing was the same for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is about escaping and surviving Hurricane Katrina and what happens next in the lives of a cross-section of Crescent City residents....[more]
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This collection comprises news stories produced by and aired on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer before, during, and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Video, audio, and text files are available for many of the reports.
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A record of the impact of Hurricane Katrina upon one of the largest St. Tammany Parish communities in the New Orleans metropolitan area. This collection conveys not merely the devastation, but elements of the community before the hurricane and signs...[more]
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http://danmilham.photoworkshop.com/
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New Orleans Community Bike Project or Plan B is a community-run bike project that functions as an open workspace for bicycle repair. The workspace makes an array of professional bike tools available for use to the public for free while volunteers...[more]
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After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Community Bike Project repaired and then distributed throughout New Orleans hundreds of used bikes.
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A collection of the response to Hurricane Katrina by those in Presbyterian Church.
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Rebuilding Hope In New Orleans a program through St Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church and Habitat for Humanity.
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Recovery Program of PC(USA).
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Pictures of how residents of St. Bernard parish were affected after Katrina, and how they lived before the devastating flood.
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Hosted by the Oak Street Main Street organization, the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival was founded in 2007 as a celebration of the storied poor boy sandwich and the role it has played in New Orleans' culinary...[more]
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Photographs regarding the history of poor boy sandwiches, corner groceries, and other restaurants serving the french bread sandwich
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Stories about lost poor boy shops and memories associated with this staple of the New Orleans diet are being collected during the festival and online via the Po-Boy Preservation Festival website.
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Memories and photographs regarding the festival itself.
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Circle, Inc. was founded by Mr. Monroe J. Wolfe, Sr. in 1960. In the early years, Circle, Inc. was primarily devoted to dredging and heavy construction related to marine work. Such work continues. Circle, Inc. handles many types of heavy...[more]