"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash. Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events. A 1916 silent film adaptation was made, but may be lost. 📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️

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Black Friday : Isham, Frederic Stewart, 1866-1922 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

4 p.l., 409 p. 20 cm

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They came for the excitement, the crowds, the holiday energy & retail deals. #BlackFriday at Liberty Tree Mall, Danvers, MA, 1995—raw footage & B-roll, with kids on a carousel while parents navigated the hustle. 🛍️🎠 This 90s time capsule was preserved on the @npub1umd6...wfr7 by the original videographer, Jim Capillo. 📼 Watch the full tape ⤵️

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Black Friday Shopping Liberty Tree Mall Danvers MA 11/24/95 : Jim Capillo : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Black Friday Christmas Shopping, 11/1995 - raw footage and B roll for unknown package. Jennifer Babine, talent - Jim Capillo, videographerLocation,...

#Thanksgiving & football go hand in hand, and THE FRESHMAN (1925) shows the frenzy has been around for over a century. Harold Lloyd’s chaotic climactic game helped shape every underdog sports comedy that followed. Touchdown! 🏈 Watch the full #publicdomain classic ⤵️

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The Freshman : Lloyd, Harold : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Freshman, 1925 film

🏈🖥️ Ready to call the plays? In Football for Windows, created by an ex-college player, you step in as coach & run the game your way. It was once free to copy & play (with a $25 registration to unlock everything) — and now you can play it instantly in-browser at the @npub1umd6...wfr7 ➡️

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Football for Windows v4.00 : TSoft : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Football for Windows - is a real-time simulation of the game of football. NEW: support for college rules. Requires WIN31.

#shareware #retrogaming

#Football on the menu today? 🏈 This #Thanksgiving, enjoy a charming home movie of two kids tossing the ball on a crisp autumn day! 🍂 🎞️ Full film features 1940–1948 holidays, parades, & neighborhood celebrations. Watch it here ⤵️

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Home movie: 000599: 1940-1948 holidays and parades : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Home movie: 000599: 1940-1948 holidays and parades

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The gridiron & #Thanksgiving have been paired for over a century. 🏈🦃 The sport’s inspired songs, stories, and more. 🏟️ Take it to the end zone this holiday weekend with vintage books, movies, computer games, videos, programs & magazine covers in this football collection on the @npub1umd6...wfr7 ⤵️

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Are your #Thanksgiving cooking plans half-baked? 🧑‍🍳 Don’t stew in your own juices—simmer down and take some time ⏲️ out to peruse these vintage kitchen manuals for slow cookers, blenders, cookware & ovens. Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️

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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with little more than rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. Easily lost, they are irreplaceable treasures. 🦃 This #Thanksgiving, celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️

Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks | Internet Archive Blogs

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Musicians—famous or fringe—navigate a system where copyright, power, and industry practices don’t always match the stories we’re told. In this Future Knowledge #podcast episode, Michael Menna & Anjali Vats unpack how these dynamics shape everything from 360 deals to Taylor Swift’s re-recordings—and you can learn more from their papers, linked on the episode page. 🎧 Listen & learn more ⤵️

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Future Knowledge | Music and Copyright in the Era of Taylor Swift

In this conversation, Michael Menna and Anjali Vats unpack how copyright law really works for musicians outside the mainstream. While stars like Ta...

📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, a conversation reimagining open access through collective, scholar-led publishing. What happens when we build ethical, non-commercial, commons-based systems? Co-hosted with Authors Alliance. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️

Book Talk: Publishing Beyond the Market with Samuel Moore

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