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Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
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Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
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A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
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Title
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
Call No
BIO Matzeliger
Authors
Mitchell, Barbara
Mitchell, Hetty
Subjects
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889. sears
Inventors--Biography.
Shoe industry--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Language
English
Published
Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda, 1986.
Publication Desc
63 p. : ill. ;
ISBN
0876142900
LCCN
86004157 /AC
Series
A Carolrhoda creative minds book
Target Audience
3-6
5.9
Dimensions
23 cm.