Jan Ernst Matzeliger collection, ca. 1889-1955.

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Jan Ernst Matzeliger collection, ca. 1889-1955.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, and personal documents collected by Kaplan for an article about the African American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger, whose patent for a toe lasting machine obtained in 1883 revolutioned the shoe industry.

0.5 linear ft.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, -1889

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1852, Sept. 15 Born in Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch Guiana) the son of a Dutch engineer and a black woman of Surinam. ca. 1873 Landed in Philadelphia 1877 Moved to Lynn, Massachusetts and worked in a shoe factory. 1883 Was granted a...

Kaplan, Sidney, 1913-....

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Scholar of African-American culture and history and an analyst of how African Americans are portrayed. Taught at the University of Massachusetts for 31 years and helped found its African-American Studies Dept. He died in 1993. From the description of Sidney Kaplan collection, 1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570758 From the guide to the Sidney Kaplan collection, 1971, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives a...