Mitchell, Barbara,  1941- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0876142900 (lib. bdg.) :  $8.95 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>86004157  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889 --Juvenile literature.<br/>Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Shoemakers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>African American inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>Inventors.<br/>Shoe industry--Biography.<br/>African Americans--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TS990.M335  / M58 1986 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>685/.31/0028