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 a dark reddish brown. On one of the brick’s faces are small patches of grayish white mortar residue along the stretcher and header sides. There are also light green paint deposits near one header end and at the center of the face. Roughly half of the other face is covered in a layer of mortar with visible shell inclusions. The mortar diagonally divides the surface of the brick. There is also a diagonal molding mark on the exposed brick, a semicircular loss at the center of the stretcher side, and two damaged corners. One of the stretchers has a significant semicircular loss at the middle. Half of the stretcher is covered with mortar as well as one of the long stretcher edges.

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