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Author Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-

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

Imprint Minneapolis, Minn. : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Jumpstart Biography  B MATZELIGER    ---  Available
Description 63 p. ; 23 cm.
Series A Carolrhoda creative minds book
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 maching that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
Subject Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, 1889-
Shoe industry -- Juvenile literature.
African American inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author Mitchell, Hetty, illustrator.
ISBN 0876142900

 
    
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