- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Designed by
- Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892
- Edbrooke, Willoughby J., American, 1843 - 1896
- Franklin P. Burnham, American, 1853 - 1909
- Date
- 1891-1892
- Medium
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3 3/8 × 3 × 1/2 in. (8.6 × 7.6 × 1.3 cm)
- Description
- A floor tile fragment from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois. The tile is trapezoidal in shape and reddish-orange in color. The top of the tile has an indentation with a dark inclusion. The underside of the tile has two shallow grooves running horizontally through the tile where it would have locked into the mortar. The top of the tile has an angled edge.
- Place used
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Buildings and Structures
- Type
- landmark buildings
- Topic
- Architecture
- Black geographies
- Building Arts
- Communities
- Design
- Domestic life
- Ornamentation
- Urban life
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Isabel Dunham Strauss
- Object number
- 2022.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




