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Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-

Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [1986] �1986. - 63 p. : ill ; 22 cm. - Carolrhoda creative minds biography . - Carolrhoda creative minds biography. .

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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.

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ISBN: 0876142900 (lib. bdg.) 0876144733 9780876142905 0329311069 9780876144732 1413136486 9780329311063 9781413136487

LCCN: 86004157

Subjects--Personal Names:
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, -1889 --Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, -1889.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, -1889.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shoe industry--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Shoe industry--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Inventors.
Shoe industry--Biography.
African American inventors--Biography.
Inventors--Biography.
Shoe industry--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.

LC Class. No.: TS990.M335 / M58 1986

Dewey Class. No.: 685/.31/0028 B