Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A wooden bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The mahogany, rectangular, wooden bench, features a rectangular padded cushion. The bench has brown cane webbing over the seat, four carved legs, and an I-shaped support bar attached to the legs. The legs are squared at the top and taper inwards towards the bottom. There are carved square shapes at the top of each leg, just below the skirt. The bench has a small skirt that attaches to all four chair legs. Underneath the seat are three supporting metal bands: two that extend diagonally from corner to corner, and one that extends from front to back. The corners of the bench are held together underneath with triangular wedges that have been screwed to the body of the chair. The text [M066] has been stamped along one edge of the bench.

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