[Santa Claus" making a toy]" – Vintage Print
![[Santa Claus" making a toy]", c1907. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/69/697824bfcfa5-L.webp)
(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" making a toy]". An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Santa Claus" making a toy]"
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In this stereograph, a man in a Santa Claus costume sits at work on a toy, with dolls and other playthings nearby, a scene that stages the old idea of Santa as the maker of Christmas gifts. The card was issued by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that produced large numbers of stereo views for home viewers, which were paired images that gave a three-dimensional effect when seen through a stereoscope. Around 1907, such cards were a common parlor entertainment, and holiday scenes like this one were popular for their cozy, domestic charm. Its catalog entry lists toys and dolls as subjects, which makes it a useful record of how early twentieth-century Christmas imagery pictured the workshop at the North Pole.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H103513 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. U87194. |
| Subjects | Santa Claus--1900-1910. Toys--1900-1910. Dolls--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,768 × 2,245 px · prints to 6 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-190014 |
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