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, hand formed brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and its color ranges from reddish brown to grayish brown in color. The brick is roughly textured with significant wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. The grayish brown face has a series of cracks extending from one stretcher edge, and a header edge, extending towards the center of the face, as well as losses at all four corners. There are also some tan and white patches of mortar residue on the face’s surface near the center, a stretcher edge, and one header edge. The other face is reddish brown in color with patches grayish brown and black discolorations. The face also has a diagonal crack that runs from one stretcher edge to the other, losses along the header edge, and a large air bubble at the center.

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