Today, both towns attract the saint’s devotees. In 1866, Nast’s cartoon Santa Claus and His Works featured the words “Santaclaussville, N.P.” alongside Santa performing the tasks people ...

Nast also drew from his own traditions of St. Nicholas with folklore images of elves. In the image, credited as the first modern image of Santa Claus, St. Nick arrives at a Union army camp on a ...

One of the most influential figures in shaping the modern image of Santa was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist who drew pictures of Santa for Harper's Weekly in the 1860s and 1870s ...

By the 1860s, famous cartoonist Thomas Nast had turned Santa Claus into a fully human-sized character and given him a home at the North Pole. Read more of this story from our National Museum of ...

Santa Claus is coming to town, and Nashville has been named one of the top places to “find holiday cheer.” Conde Nast Traveler identified 28 cities in the United States “that go all out for ...

Many people pass on the urban legend that Santa Claus's red suit was created by Coca Cola, but that is untrue. Thomas Nast had Santa running around in his red and white ensemble years before Coca ...