Santa Claus’s history with Coke (the soda, to be specific) stems from the 1920s, when designs similar to the ones created by Thomas Nast made their appearances in advertisements for the soft drink.

Santa Claus is widely known today as a jolly old ... the founding of The Coca-Cola Company -- political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew an extremely popular version of Santa based on Moore's poem.

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 ...