A Physical Survey of The Red Man's Rebuke

By Fritz Swanson

Using the physical copy of The Red Man's Rebuke that is held by the Chicago History Museum, I have collated relevant physical details in the table below.

The goal of this survey is to collect information such that a reproduction of the original can be made.

My thanks go to Rebekah Coffman, the Curator of Religion and Community History, for the measurements made of the physical edition. I am also grateful to printing colleagues Jody Harnish, George Thomas and Ed Rayher for their help identifying the typographic elements used.

For type, George's references are drawn from the Barnhart Brothers and Spindler specimen of 1893:

Chicago History Museum Edition
Original Files 		Measurements Image Information Typography
  • Cover Page
    • dimensions: 117 mm L x 89 mm H
    • Image: 51mm L x 38 mm H
    • Text:
    • Top line 8mm H for "T"; 4 mm H for others
    • "By": 1.5mm H
    • "Chief Pokagon": 2.5mm H
    • Image caption: 1.5mm H
This is a simplified engraving based on a more detailed 1856 engraving by H. B. Hall called "The Landing of Columbus" . The Hall engraving is itself based on an 1846 painting of the same title by John Vanderlyn. (This insight was offered by George Thomas.)

Here is a manually processed version of the image from the cover page.

 George Thomas:

  • Cover: T with swash is art; rest of title is Gothic No. 5
  • Author's Name: West Lining Gothic
  • Rest of Cover: Lining Gothic No. ?; number is point-size dependent.
  • This is a BB&S original design.
  • Frontmatter
    • "Copyright": 2mm H
    • "By": 1.5mm H
    • "Address all...": 2mm H
    • "CH Engle...": 2mm H
    • "Hartford, Mich": 1.5mm H
  • Epigraph
    • Page dimensions: 123mm L x 89mm H
    • Image (Eagle): 56mm L x 37mm H
    • Text: 2mm H
This eagle is a standard commercial electrotype. Jody Harnish found one version of it in the Desk book of type specimens, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts : catalogue of printing machinery and printers' supplies from 1901. It's on page 850, lower right.

  • Epigraph
    • Top image: 47mm L x 30mm H
    • Lower image: 37mm L x 30mm H
    • Text: 2mm H
Both the fox and deer image are standard commercial electrotypes. George Thomas found them on page 283 of The seventeenth book of specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry from 1888.
  • Preface
    • Page dimensions: 122mm L x 90mm H
    • Text: 3mm
Dedication
  • Page One
    • Page 1 ("The Red Man's Rebuke"):
    • Page dimensions: 115mm L x 88mm H
    • Text:
    • "The Red Man's Rebuke:" 4mm H
    • "By...": 3mm H
    • "Pottawatomie...": 1.5mm H (italicized)
    • "Shall not...": 1.5mm H
    • Main body text: 3mm H
    • Page number: 1.5mm H
George Thomas:

  • Title: DeVinne
  • Author's Name: Elzevir
  • Title Page Body: Old Style, renamed in the BB&S 1900 book as Old Style No. 1, not to be confused with Linotype's face of the same name.
  • Page Two
    • Text: 3mm H
George Thomas:

"Old Style, except on the page with the image of the Indian man, the type is an unidentified Old Style."

  • Page Three
    • Page dimensions: 120mm L x 89mm H
    • Text: 2mm H
  • Page Four
    • Text: 2mm H
  • Page Five
    • Page dimensions: 119mm L x 88mm H
    • Body text: 2mm
    • Page number: 1.5mm
  • Page Six
    • Text: 2mm
    • Page number: 1.5mm
  • Page Seven
    • Page dimensions: 118mm L x 87mm H
    • Text: 2mm
    • Page number: 1.5mm
  • Page Eight
    • Text body: 2mm H
    • Quoted text: 1.5mm H
  • Page Nine
    • Page dimensions: 117mm L x 89mm H
    • Text:
    • Body text: 2mm H
    • Quote text: 1.5mm H
    • Page number; 1.5mm H
  • Page Ten
    • Text: 2mm H
  • Page Eleven
    • Page dimensions: 120mm L x 89mm x H
    • Text: 2mm H
    • Page number: 1.5mm H
  • Page Twelve
    • Text: 2mm (slightly smaller than other main body text, close to 1.5mm)
    • Page number: 1mm
  • Page Thirteen
    • Page dimensions: 120mm L x 89mm H
    • Text; 2mm H
    • Page number: 1.5mm H
  • Page Fourteen
    • Text: 2mm H
    • Page number: 1.5mm H
  • Page Fifteen
    • Page dimensions: 120mm L x 89mm H
    • Text: 2mm H
    • Page number: 1mm H
  • Page Sixteen
    • Text: 2mm H
    • Page number: 1.5mm H
  • Back Cover (interior blank)
    • Page dimensions: 120m L x 90m H
  • Back Cover (exterior)
    • Image: 27mm L x 56mm H
    • Text: 2mm
The indigenous man with a tomahawk depicted here is a standard commercial electrotype. It can be found here on page 397 of Convenient book of specimens. Franklin type foundry from 1889. You can also see the eagle from earlier on page 407.