Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
Title
:
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
Personal Author EPSB
:
Barbara, Mitchell
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.
Year Published
:
1986
Series
:
A Carolrhoda creative minds book
Physical Description
:
63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note
:
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level R kit.
Personal Subject
:
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, 1852-1889.
Subject
:
Shoe industry -- United States -- Biography.
African American inventors -- Biography.
Inventors.
Shoe industry -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Added Author
:
Mitchell, Hetty,
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.
ISBN
:
9780876142905
9780876144732
Publisher
:
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, ©1986.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| George P. Nicholson | CL5 | Teacher resource | 31004000269048 | Checked out |