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, extruded brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape, has smooth surfaces, and is uniformly a dark reddish brown. One of the brick’s faces has some faint dark discolorations at the center, air bubbles, and extrusion marks. The other face has two sets of diagonal extrusion lines and small white patches of salt efflorescence on the surface. There are small losses along the center of one stretcher edge and one header edge of the face. One stretcher has a small, vertical dark band towards the center of the face, and a large, dark air bubble along one header edge. Half of the brick along the long edge of the other stretcher is covered with a dark discolorations. There is also a vertical crack running down the surface near the center of the face.

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