The History of Santa Claus & Father Christmas -- just a bit of seasonal fun :) http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/ pic.twitter.com/zEBbnX1Ujo
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Stephen Nissenbaum on the E19thC American creation of Santa Claus+sanitisation of Christmas: http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/christmas-reborn-the-creation-of-a-consumer-christmas-professor-steven-nissenbaum-in-interview/ …pic.twitter.com/bAPNHl4ZMr
More 19th-E20thC images at the 'Art History of Santa', incl a propaganda poster from 1918: http://www.theuntappedsource.com/blog/art-history-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/BlvVqhJzLH
St Nicholas/Santa Claus before Thomas Nast---illustrations to Moore's 'Night Before Christmas' by Louis Prang, 1864: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/prang.htm …pic.twitter.com/qLRxwKmk30
Thomas Nast's illustrations for Clement Clarke Moore's 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas', 1869: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/nast.htm …pic.twitter.com/B0G9VJZCNn
Some pre-Coca Cola Santas from 'White Rock' water adverts, Life Magazine, 1923-25: http://www.whiterocking.org/santa.html & http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/santa.htm …pic.twitter.com/Lw2TsRgons
A Japanese image of a modern-looking Santa Claus from 1914, showing the spread of his legend: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1914_Santa_Claus.jpg …pic.twitter.com/qfWrtH9FPc
@caitlinrgreen @EvansianI That's terrific.
@Rebs7 @caitlinrgreen and a happy Christmas to both of you, ladies!
@EvansianI @Rebs7 Merry Christmas to you too! :)
@caitlinrgreen and thank you for all your festive Tweetery, Dr Green. It's been fascinating!
@EvansianI A pleasure! Glad you like! :)
With the Shard in the background I'm not sure how early this can be...
@caitlinrgreen That's almost 200 Xmas trees ago and an ocean of egg nog!
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