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, extruded brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape, has smooth surfaces, and is uniformly a dark reddish brown. One of the brick’s faces has some faint dark discolorations at the center, air bubbles, and extrusion marks. The other face has two sets of diagonal extrusion lines and small white patches of salt efflorescence on the surface. There are small losses along the center of one stretcher edge and one header edge of the face. One stretcher has a small, vertical dark band towards the center of the face, and a large, dark air bubble along one header edge. Half of the brick along the long edge of the other stretcher is covered with a dark discolorations. There is also a vertical crack running down the surface near the center of the face.
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: 2017.108.21.36
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
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 2 3/16 × 7 15/16 × 3 11/16 in. (5.5 × 20.2 × 9.4 cm)