Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell.

By:

Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-

Contributor(s):

Mitchell, Hetty

Material type: Text

TextSeries: A Carolrhoda creative minds bookPublication details: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.Description: 63 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0876142900 (lib. bdg.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

685/.31/0028 B 92 19

Summary: 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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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.