A Victorian-era German 'Father Christmas' with a foliage beard.pic.twitter.com/aQoQ822ASl
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By the early twentieth century, the American Santa Claus had also spread to Japan, as seen in this image of a modern-looking Santa Claus from 1914: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1914_Santa_Claus.jpg …pic.twitter.com/WUoCQVOXdD
Worth noting, incidentally, that the modern-looking Japanese Santa dates from well before the first Coca-Cola Santa ad campaign in 1931; see further https://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp … on the myth of Coca-Cola's creation of the modern Santa :)pic.twitter.com/AevhgcswHL
Before he started endorsing Coca-Cola, a very modern-looking Santa Claus had previously endorsed White Rock mineral water and ginger ale… (images from Life magazine, Dec 1923 and Dec 1924): http://www.whiterocking.org/santa.html pic.twitter.com/p3yR0zkZTE
Santa endorsed products well before White Rock and Coca-Cola too — here's the label from a box of Santa Claus Sugar Plums, 1868: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Claus_Sugar_Plums,_1868.png …pic.twitter.com/HRumKbVcqb
The first of J.R.R. Tolkien's letters from Father Christmas, 1920—although he used the English name for the Christmas visitor, he also made liberal use of elements from the American Santa Claus lore and included both elves & goblins: https://theconversation.com/amp/j-r-r-tolkiens-christmas-letters-to-his-children-bring-echoes-of-middle-earth-to-the-north-pole-89464 …pic.twitter.com/lTDazanRHu
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there… (pic=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/mcloughlinedition.htm …, 1896)pic.twitter.com/XMhtB6ibFA
Father Christmas on the Yule goat looks rather sinister.
Indeed! A rather different character back then...!
I think I saw a Yule goat at a Winter Wonderland a couple of Christmases ago
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