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Brick

18th-20th century

United States, North and Central America

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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 reddish brown in color with some wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. One of the brick’s faces is covered in thick patches of grayish white mortar with rock and shell fragment inclusions at diagonally opposite corners. The other face of the brick is a darker brownish red with some small deposits of mortar residue on the surface. Both stretcher sides have some small mortar deposits. Each header has a loss at a corner.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2017.108.21.27

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