Coca-Cola advertisement with Santa, "Somebody knew I was coming – Antique Print
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Coca-Cola advertisement with Santa, "Somebody knew I was coming comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Coca-Cola advertisement with Santa, "Somebody knew I was coming
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A Coca-Cola advertisement built around Santa Claus, captioned "Somebody knew I was coming," ties the brand to the holiday with a playful line that suggests the drink was waiting for him. Coca-Cola's Christmas advertising of the early twentieth century drew on this image of a warm, human Santa, most famously in the illustrations Haddon Sundblom painted for the company beginning in 1931. Those images helped fix the red-suited, white-bearded Santa in popular imagery, and the brand's red and white colors became closely linked with the season. Notice how the ad treats Santa as a friendly, familiar guest rather than a distant figure.
| Original scan | 600 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 1514 |
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