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Description English: Thomas Nast'smost 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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2007-11-22 11:08 Arcayne 167×234×8 (50569 bytes) ==Summary== [[Thomas Nast|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 with an illustration for the January 3, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly The first Sa

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Camera manufacturer SONYCamera model MAVICA Exposure time1/30 sec (0.033333333333333) F-numberf/2.8 Date and time of data generation 11:36, 4 June 2002 Lens focal length9.8 mm File change date and time 11:36, 4 June 2002 Y and C positioning 2 Exposure Program Normal program ISO speedrating 206 Exifversion 2.1 Date and time of digitizing 11:36, 4 June 2002 Image compression mode 2 Exposure bias0 Maximum land aperture 3 Metering modeCenterWeightedAverage Light source Unknown Flash0 Color spacesRGB