Brick

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A solid style, ground molded brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is grayish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. One header has losses at all four corners. One brick face has coat of grayish-white mortar with a loss of mortar extending diagonally from one corner to the other, down the middle of the face. Two thirds of the other face is also covered with mortar with one header end exposed. The exposed brick is roughly textured. There is a jagged vertical crack running vertically along one stretcher side of the brick.

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