Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
(1986)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
ESL/BIOGRAPHY/MATZELIGER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [1986]
©1986
©1986
DESCRIPTION
63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0876142900 (lib. bdg.) :, 0876144733
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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