The art of ventriloquism
A late nineteenth-century New York guide to ventriloquism by Frederic Maccabe, published by F.M. Lupton in 1894 and drawn from Library of Congress magic collections, written for performers and amateurs learning the art. Its pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of a speaker and listeners in period dress, along with a staged apparatus scene that a designer could borrow for vintage stage or theatrical motifs.
