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.
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.