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English: Thomas Nast's most famous drawing, "Merry Old Santa Claus," from Harper's Weekly (January 1, 1881, p.8-9).

Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus' current look with an initial illustration in an 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly, as part of a large illustration titled "A Christmas Furlough" in which Nast set aside his regular news and political coverage to do a Santa Claus drawing. the popularity of that image prompted him to create another illustration in 1881.
I cropped the existing image to trim out the illustration box text and worn edges of the paper the image was printed on using Adobe Photoshop™.

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1. The Germans in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
2. Thomas Nast: The Man Who Drew Santa Claus


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