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Kerry WeberSeptember 16, 2010

This week we have a video report on the short-term and long-term efforts to restore church artifacts and salvage church records in the Archdiocese of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Archivists from around the country pitched in to save and catalogue items. Watch the video, below, to learn more about what's happened to those items in the five years since the flood.

 

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