CHRISTMAS POEMS AND PICTURES [With "Twas The Night Before Christmas"]

1864 · New York

by Moore, Clement; Nast, Thomas
New York: James G. Gregory, 1864. Very good.. Civil War-era holiday compendium with an early printing of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (the original name of the famous poem) and an engraving of Santa by Thomas Nast inspired by the poem. The Santa Claus now synonymous with many Western Christmas traditions was not born at the North Pole, but in Civil War-era America. Bavarian immigrant Thomas Nast, a Union political cartoonist for HARPER'S WEEKLY, looked to Clement C. Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for imagery to use in his 1863 holiday illustration for the paper, as well as his own "bearded visage and round belly" – thus, Santa entered US popular (truncated)
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