Brick
date: label: Date
content: 18th-20th century
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Owned by
content: Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
notes: label: Description
content: A solid style, sand cast brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is dark reddish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. The brick is misshapen giving it a slightly trapezoidal shape. One of the brick’s faces has deposits of grayish white mortar spread thinly and unevenly over the surface. The same face has a large loss along the longer stretcher edge and the exposed brick is roughly textured. The other face is plain with losses at three of the four corners. One stretcher surface has a mushroom-shaped depression surrounded by green copper corrosion deposits at a header end. The other stretcher is covered with a thick layer of cement mortar discolored by black scorch marks. There is green paint residue on one header surface.
place: label: Place used
content: United States, North and Central America
label: Place collected
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Building Arts
label: Topic
content: Skilled labor
label: Topic
content: Slavery
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Buildings and Structures
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.108.21.23
objectType: label: Type
content: blocks (shaped masses)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: brick and cement mortar
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 2 3/4 × 9 1/16 × 4 1/2 in. (7 × 23 × 11.5 cm)