The drawing was by 22-year-old Thomas Nast, who was born in Germany and came to New York with his family at age 6. Nast said he based his Santa on a German version of Saint Nicholas, Pelze-Nicol.

Thomas Nast’s illustrations of Santa for ‘Harper’s Weekly’ shaped the ... But the Santa Claus we know today would have been unfamiliar ... Nast first drew him for the January 3, 1863, ...

Cartoonist Thomas Nast first drew Santa Claus in January 1863, for Harper's Weekly. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, via Metropolitan Museum of Art under CC 1.0 ...

The Development of the Contemporary Santa Claus. ... Claus was developed in the post Civil War era. Mr. Stone was dressed as a patriotic Santa depicted in an 1863 cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast.

Thomas Nast, “Santa Claus in Camp (from Harper’s Weekly)” (1863), wood engraving (all images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art). These days, Santa sightings typically take place in ...

In early 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, cartoonist and illustrator Thomas Nast created a Christmas scene for the cover of Harper's Weekly. The cover showed Santa Claus arriving at a Union ...

Prior to Nast's drawings, Saint Nicolas and later Santa Claus, had been drawn as a tall, thin man. Beginning in the 1860s, at the height of the Civil War, Nast began drawing a series of Christmas ...

While Coca-Cola's advertising certainly played a role in shaping the popular image of Santa Claus, the ... while its physiognomy is attributed to the German cartoonist Thomas Nast, who, in 1863, ...

Santa Claus is an American. This news may surprise readers who know he lives at the North Pole (where an American artist, Thomas Nast, put him in Christmas 1866) or who remember that the ...

Santa Claus and Thomas Nast. Share full article. ANTHONY LUMLEY. June 4, 1904; Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 4, 1904, Section BR, Page ...

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 in the 1910s and 1920s had largely come into focus as the jolly, bearded, ... famous cartoonist Thomas Nast had turned Santa Claus into a fully human-sized character and given him a home ...