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 brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is primarily grayish brown in color. There is a thick layer of mortar covering the entire surface of one of the brick’s faces. The other face has a large patch of thick mortar that covers most of the surface. The exposed brick below is a dark reddish brown. There is a small deposit of bright terracotta red powder near one of the header sides of the brick. One of the stretchers has a small deposit of mortar along a long side near a corner. The other stretcher has two small losses, each along the long edges of the brick. One header has a small deposit of mortar residue at the center. Both stretchers and headers also have heavy deposits of white salt efflorescence.

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