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, 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. The other stretcher has a loss at one corner, a small T-shaped deport of mortar, and a green paint deposit near another corner. One of the headers has four light green paint deposits.
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: 2017.108.21.37
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 15/16 × 9 1/16 × 4 3/4 in. (7.5 × 23 × 12 cm)