At the time Nast signed his name to the copies he made of my sketches on the blocks, we were both working for The New York Illustrated News, of which Thomas Bailey Aldrich was the editor.

The history of Santa Claus and his iconic red suit is a fascinating blend of folklore, religious tradition, marketing, and cultural evolution.

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Thomas Nast, a Civil War-era cartoonist with the magazine Harper’s Weekly, created the enduring image of Santa Claus in a series of 33 drawings published between 1863 and 1886. The first of these ...

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Thomas Nast first drew Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly in the winter of 1862. Throughout the war, Nast often depicted Santa Claus celebrating Christmas with Union soldiers. President Abraham Lincoln ...

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.

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. In the early 1930s, Coca-Cola turned to Haddon H. Sundblom ...

Eventually, St. Nicholas morphed into the secular Santa Claus. Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years, played a ...