National Museum of African American History and Culture
Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois
Unidentified · 1891-1892
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.
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