Shoes for everyone :
Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986. - 63 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .
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.
0876142900 (lib. bdg.) : $8.95
86004157
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889 --Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889.
Shoemakers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Inventors.
Shoe industry--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
TS990.M335 / M58 1986
685/.31/0028
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986. - 63 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .
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.
0876142900 (lib. bdg.) : $8.95
86004157
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889 --Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889.
Shoemakers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Inventors.
Shoe industry--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
TS990.M335 / M58 1986
685/.31/0028