A very early illustration of 'Sante Claus' from The Children's Friend, William B. Gilley, 1821: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/E5RY5akOUz
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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
the harpers weekly one, is one of my favouritespic.twitter.com/PgT5P7eZCE
Oh, yes! Excellent :)
Wow! Love this stuff
So much better than those awful sell more product based horribly superficial truck (didn't Santa drive a sleigh?) adverts.
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