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 dark reddish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. One face has a patch of thick grayish white mortar residue running down the middle and losses at each header end. The other brick face has a large loss at one corner and most of the surface is covered with white salt efflorescence. Both stretcher sides have brown to black discolorations on approximately half of their surface areas and both header surfaces have some mortar residue.

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