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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 657

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 657 — resent century had passed more than itsfirst decade before the use of umbrellas becamegeneral. All over the East the umbrella has been usedfrom remote ages, though at first mainly as an 624 UMBRELLAS. [August, emblem of royalty. But for centuries past these and so very cheap—about twenty cents… … -• r THE FIRST UMBRELLA IN THE STREETS OF LONDON. those fervid climes. In form and size the ordinary the same style, for fifteen centuries, and in th< umbrella is nearly like our own, but the material neighboring countries for perhaps nearly as long a is silk, or paper beautifully painted or…

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