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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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.

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All of the following images were photographed in New Orleans on Dec. 27, 2005 - 121 days after Hurricane Katrina hit the area. While there has been amazing progress in cleaning up the city of debris left by the storm,…

The following photographs are from my second trip back to the New Orleans area (11/07/05) to document the damage from Hurricane Katrina. The photos will take you back into parts of Gentilly and then visit New Orleans…

This is a photo tour my father and I made of Metairie and New Orleans, taken 10/24/2005. Having lived in these areas for many years, it was my first opportunity to revisit areas where I used to live to see what\'s still…

A Letter from the Mississippi Gulf Coast.doc

A Letter from the…

All of the following images were photographed in New Orleans on Dec. 27, 2005 - 121 days after Hurricane Katrina hit the area. While there has been amazing progress in cleaning up the city of debris left by the storm,…

This document describes what Elizabeth Schexnyder saw when shooting a 15-minute video on October 5, 2006 as she accompanied Steven Singerman in search of his missing boat. Delacroix is an Islenos settlement on Bayou…

Beginning my junior year of college, I was deep in my studies and work when the news of Katrina washed up on the shores of the Ohio river.\r\n\r\nAlthough it did not affect me personally, I had several classmates from…

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SS NOLA Lower 9th…

Text of email sent to members of the American Association for State and Local History by National Hansens Disease Curator, updating them on the status of their facilities following Hurricane Katrina.

NHDM email to…

Its funny, when your little all you can think about when a hurricane comes is Yes, I’m missing school, going on vacation, and all because of a little rain and a little wind. I guess my state of mind was little, because…