Umbrellas and Their History

Name: Umbrellas and Their History
Author: William Sangster

by William Sangster

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Project Gutenberg

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Text file produced by Avinash Kothare, Steve Schulze, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the CWRU Preservation Department Digital Library HTML file produced by David Widger

Release date

2004-10-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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Umbrellas

About the author

William Sangster

1808–1888

Best remembered for a delightfully curious book on umbrellas, this 19th-century English writer turned everyday objects and habits into lively social history. His work has the charm of a knowledgeable guide who knows that small subjects can open onto bigger stories.

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