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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 : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.
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Westside Biography
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Description
63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series
A Carolrhoda creative minds biography
Indexed In:
Wilson's Children, June 2001
School Library Journal
Book Links (A.L.A.), May 1996
Bulletin (Center for Children's books)
Kirkus Review
The Science Teacher (N.S.T.A.)
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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5.9
3-6 Follett Library Resources
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accel read RL r5.7 p1.0 west
Subject
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889.
Shoe industry -- Biography.
African American inventors -- Biography.
Added Author
Mitchell, Hetty, illustrator.
ISBN
0876144733
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