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The Soda Company That Created Santa Claus As We Know Him
In 1881 -- five years before the founding of The Coca-Cola Company -- political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew an extremely popular version of Santa based on Moore's poem. Nast's Santa was somewhat ...
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Who is Santa Claus, Anyway?
Our modern day version of Santa is actually a combination of various legends and traditions from around the world. The post ...
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"Nast-y political symbols: How Thomas Nast introduced American elections to the donkey and the elephant
Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist ... He was returned to prison in the U.S. and died in jail in 1878. Nast drew Santa cartoons for Harper’s Weekly each holiday season — a ...
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Must Be Santa
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 ...