Heils-Armee-Liederbuch
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This song book by the Heils-Armee – the German branch of the Salvation Army – must have been issued sometime around 1900. The title page mentions Thomas McKie, who served as Kommandeur for Germany from 1894 to 1901. The booklet was edited by Jakob Junker, operating from the Army’s National Headquarters at Blücherplatz 1 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Junker also published Der Kriegsruf, the German edition of the Army’s official news bulletin, The War Cry.
The title typeface circulated in Germany under various names including Kirchen-Gotisch and Pfeil-Gothisch. It originated in the United States, though, where it was first cast by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1870 and sold as Fancy Text. “Bereite dich vor deinem Gott zu stehen” (“Prepare to meet your God”, Amos 4:12) is set in a Fette Fraktur. “Berlin” is in a Breite Kanzlei, and the address in a Midolline; more precisely, Magere Midolline as cast by Woellmer. “Nachdruck verboten” is in a standard fraktur, see Normal-Fraktur. The price is shown in Normande.
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The title page features Fancy Text and Normal-Fraktur, too. There’s also a condensed grotesk and an oldstyle roman (“Mediäval” in German) which are a tad too generic to pinpoint.
This post was originally published at Fonts In Use