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 dark reddish brown mottled with grayish brown discolorations. There is some wear and losses of the brick’s surfaces and edges. One of the brick’s faces has rounded, smooth corners, a diagonal surface loss at one corner, and a patch of grayish white mortar residue along one header edge. The surface is covered with irregular grayish brown discolorations. The other face is a brighter reddish brown with some small patches of salt efflorescence at the center and along one stretcher edge. It also has a burn mark at one corner. The surface is pitted with air bubbles and has a rough texture. One stretcher has a large burn mark at the center. Half of the brick along the long edge is covered with grayish brown discolorations. The other stretcher is reddish brown with a small patch of salt efflorescence at one corner. One of the brick’s headers has a crack running across the center of the long edge that extends from a square shaped loss at one corner. There is a large air bubble at the corner opposite the crack, and a patch of mortar residue diagonally opposite from the air bubble. The other header has patches of mortar residue and salt efflorescence covering two thirds of the 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: 2017.108.21.35
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 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (7.5 × 23.5 × 11.5 cm)