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"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 ➡➡️ https://archive.org/details/blackfriday00ishaiala

#BlackFriday

Cover of the 1904 novel Black Friday by Frederic S. Isham. The olive-green cover shows the title in large gold letters at the top. Beneath it are three tall black pedestals, each supporting a domed stock ticker machine with visible gears. Long white ticker tape streams down from each machine into woven baskets. The author’s name appears in black lettering at the bottom.