Oaks Latest Tricks, Catalogue No. 22: Puzzles, Novelties, Sensational Escapes, and Illusions
A 1913 trade catalogue issued by John H. Oaks and the Oaks Magical Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, selling puzzles, novelties, escape apparatus and stage illusions to working magicians and amateur performers. Small wood-engraved cuts show cuffed wrists, handkerchiefs, pouring pitchers and smoking vases, with hatched shadows and cuffed hands demonstrating each effect in mid-motion.
