It was not until the 19th century that the iconic image of Santa Claus we know today began to take shape. In 1881, political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew the first likeness of Santa that matches ...

By the 1860s, famous cartoonist Thomas Nast had turned Santa Claus into a fully human-sized character and given him a home at the North Pole. Read more of this story from our National Museum of ...

Santa Claus is widely known today as a jolly old ... the founding of The Coca-Cola Company -- political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew an extremely popular version of Santa based on Moore's poem.

In addition to these two totem animals, the man who thought them up — political cartoonist Thomas Nast — also thought up the characters of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus. He used all four of his ...