The Onymous November-December 2013, issue 7 | Page 11

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Issue 7 November-December 2013

quick’. The poem says he is a tiny
man with a sleigh drawn by eight
miniature reindeer. It goes on to
describe him as a fat, happy man
smoking a pipe and ‘dressed all in
fur’.
Between 1863 and 1886 an American cartoonist, Thomas Nast, drew
a series of drawings of Santa Claus
for Harper’s Weekly magazine. In
the drawings Santa is shown, in his
present-day attire complete with
white beard, in his workshop, driving his reindeer-pulled sleigh, and
putting toys into stockings hung
over a fireplace.
In the 1930-40s Coca Cola ran a
series of advertising campaigns
where Santa was shown enjoying
Coca Cola. These advertisements,
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