(NNPA Newswire) – The craft of shoemaking was at one time difficult and manual work. But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, cobblers and cordwainers cut, sewed, and tacked shoes with ...

Shoe manufacturing was revolutionized by the lasting machine, which was patented on March 20, 1883 by inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Matzeliger was born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a Dutch ...

The Black Heritage Series of commemoratives resumed Sept. 15 when the U. S. Postal Service issued a 29-cent stamp honoring inventor Jan Matzeliger. Matzeliger is not a household name, but his ...

Local News Lynn Museum celebrates city’s most prominent Black citizens The exhibition includes original documents of freed and traded enslaved people, including inventor Lewis Latimer and Jan Ernst ...

The exhibition, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation, included three short documentary films: Lewis Temple and Hunting the Whale, Jan E. Matzeliger, and Norbert Rillieux. Lewis ...