Jan Matzeliger collection, 1901-ca. 1951.

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Jan Matzeliger collection, 1901-ca. 1951.

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Programs, proclamations, first day of issue stamp, cachet, press releases, and Ebonaire silk cachet, relating to Jan Matzeliger, African American shoemaker and inventor of the lasting machine, of Lynn, Mass.

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Lynn Historical Society Library

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Lynn Historical Society Library

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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...