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Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger Cover Image Book Book

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

Mitchell, Barbara, 1941- (Author). Mitchell, Hetty, (ill.).

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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.) :
  • Physical Description: 63 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.

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