Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger

Titre
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger

Barbara, Mitchell

Sommaire
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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
1986

A Carolrhoda creative minds book

Description matérielle
63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Note générale
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level R kit.

Vedette-matière - nom de personne
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, 1852-1889.

Terme de vedette-matière
Shoe industry -- United States -- Biography.
 
African American inventors -- Biography.
 
Inventors.
 
Shoe industry -- Biography.
 
African Americans -- Biography.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Mitchell, Hetty,

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780876142905
 
9780876144732

Informations de publication
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, ©1986.


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