Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger /

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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Main Author: Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Mitchell, Hetty (Illustrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [1986]
Series:Carolrhoda creative minds book.
Subjects:
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, > 1852-1889 > Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, > -1889.
Shoemakers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American inventors > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Inventors.
Shoe industry > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
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Call Number: TS990.M335 M58 1986eb
 
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