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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-
Other Authors: Mitchell, Hetty (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [1986]
Series:Carolrhoda creative minds book.
Subjects:
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, > 1852-1889 > Juvenile literature.
Shoemakers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American inventors > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, > -1889.
Inventors.
Shoe industry > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.

Evans: Curriculum Collection (4th floor)

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Call Number: TS990.M335 M58 1986
 
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