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Author Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-

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

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [1986]
©1986

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  JB MATZELIGER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  JB-MATZELIGER    Check Shelf
Description 63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series A Carolrhoda creative minds book
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 machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 1.0 4374.
Subject Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, -1889 -- Juvenile literature.
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, 1852-1889.
Shoe industry -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile Literature.
African American inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile Literature.
Inventors.
Shoe industry -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Added Author Mitchell, Hetty.
ISBN 0876142900 library binding
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