- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
- Date
- 18th-20th century
- Medium
- brick and cement mortar
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 2 15/16 × 9 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (7.5 × 23.5 × 11.5 cm)
- Description
- 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 used
- United States, North and Central America
- Place collected
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Buildings and Structures
- Topic
- American South
- Architecture
- Building Arts
- Skilled labor
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2017.108.21.35
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




