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 dark reddish brown mottled with grayish brown discolorations. There is some wear and losses of the brick’s surfaces and edges. One of the brick’s faces has rounded, smooth corners, a diagonal surface loss at one corner, and a patch of grayish white mortar residue along one header edge. The surface is covered with irregular grayish brown discolorations. The other face is a brighter reddish brown with some small patches of salt efflorescence at the center and along one stretcher edge. It also has a burn mark at one corner. The surface is pitted with air bubbles and has a rough texture. One stretcher has a large burn mark at the center. Half of the brick along the long edge is covered with grayish brown discolorations.

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