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Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
- Title
- Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell.
- Author
- Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 87-859 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 63 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- A Carolrhoda creative minds book
- Subject
- Call Number
- Sc D 87-859
- ISBN
- 0876142900 (lib. bdg.)
- LCCN
- 86004157 /AC
- OCLC
- 13214660
- NYPG87-B31678
- Author
- Mitchell, Barbara, 1941-
- Title
- Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.
- Series
- A Carolrhoda creative minds book
- Added Author
- Mitchell, Hetty. IllustratorSchomburg Children's Collection.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 87-859