Shoes for everyone :
Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Carolrhoda Books, c1986. - 63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .
ALA Booklist Book Links Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Kirkus Reviews
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.
4 3-6
0876144733 $11.45
86004157
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d.1889 --Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d.1889.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d.1889
Shoe industry--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Afro-American inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Inventors.
Shoe industry--Biography.
Afro-Americans--Biography.
Inventors
Shoes and shoe industry--Biography
African Americans--Biography
TS990.M335 / M58 1986
658/.31/0028 B 92
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Carolrhoda Books, c1986. - 63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .
ALA Booklist Book Links Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Kirkus Reviews
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.
4 3-6
0876144733 $11.45
86004157
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d.1889 --Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d.1889.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d.1889
Shoe industry--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Afro-American inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Inventors.
Shoe industry--Biography.
Afro-Americans--Biography.
Inventors
Shoes and shoe industry--Biography
African Americans--Biography
TS990.M335 / M58 1986
658/.31/0028 B 92