Santa Claus – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Santa Claus. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Santa Claus
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Here a costumed figure in the familiar red suit and white beard stands for the holiday itself, since the record gives only the title "Santa Claus" and no sitter's name. By the 1890s that image was already well established in American culture. Thomas Nast's illustrations for *Harper's Weekly*, begun in the 1860s, had helped fix his portly, pipe-smoking, fur-trimmed look, building on Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Studio portraits of people in Santa costume, like this one, were popular in the same years as Christmas grew into a major season for gift-giving and advertising.
| Created / published | c1895. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Santa Claus--1890-1900. Holidays--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,955 × 3,696 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190015 |
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