Partial 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, sand cast partial brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is a reddish brown that is heavily mottled with grayish brown and black discolorations. The brick is missing one header and about half of the other header. One of the brick’s faces has a black burn mark that runs diagonally across the face and along the bottom of one stretcher edge to the intact corner. Half of the other face is covered with a large patch of grayish brown discoloration and white salt efflorescence. One stretcher has a rough texture and is completely discolored from black burn marks. The other stretcher has a smooth surface and is completely covered with dark gray discoloration.

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