This contributed to German immigrant and Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast’s portrayal, who drew Santa Claus in an 1862 Christmas edition of Harper’s Weekly.

It was Coca-Cola’s advertisements starting in the early 1930s that cemented the image of Santa Claus that we have today (although it was political cartoonist Thomas Nast who originated it in the ...

Merry Old Santa Claus, as drawn by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly. Wikimedia Commons It could have been the North Pole, and no one in 1866 had actually been to the Pole. No explorer reached ...

By the 1880s, an illustrator for “Harper’s Monthly Magazine,” named Thomas Nast, incorporated all the various circulating ideas about Santa Claus into his work, creating a series of drawings ...

In 1881, Santa's image was solidified by cartoonist Thomas Nast who depicted Mr. Claus as a large man with a white beard, red suit and a sack full of toys.

What does Santa have to do with … psychedelic mushrooms? This Christmas theory involves a bright red and white hallucinogenic mushroom called Amanita muscaria that resembles Santa Claus's ...

The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America’s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide — but Saint Nicholas' origin story is not.The legends surrounding ...

The modern image of Santa Claus is widely attributed to Thomas Nast, a German-American illustrator and political cartoonist who lived in Morristown and drew political cartoons for "Harper's Weekly ...

The Coca-Cola Company began its Christmas advertising in the 1920s, unveiling shopping-related ads in magazines centered around the first Santa: a strict-looking Claus, in the vein of Thomas Nast.

In your issue of May 21 you question Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine's assertion that Thomas Nast practically created our accepted pictorial embodiment of Santa Claus, and as Mr. Paine has since ...