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 abandoned ...

Many people have depicted Santa Claus. Many have described him. But only one person ever saw him face to face. Thomas Nast, the Morristown artist who gave us our definitive image of Santa, saw him ...

Cartoonists for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch have used Santa Claus to comment on issues from coal pollution to poverty over the decades. Published Dec. 23, 1894 • Santa Claus: "The snow, the snow, the ...

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