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 .
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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.
4 3-6
0876144733 $11.45
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