Name/Title
Card, ChristmasEntry/Object ID
1976.45.064Scope and Content
Chrismas/New Year's card with an engraving showing Santa Claus sitting in front of a fireplace with a pipe in his mouth, a bag of toys on his back, and holding a doll he is stuffing into a stocking, with a narrow gold and red octagonal borders, caption below reads "Santa Claus, The Night Before New Year, Designed and Engraved expressly for the New Mirror by Sherman & Smith, for 1844."
Inside is attached a piece of red paper. On the left is printed a note that says the Santa designed for the New Mirror was the first Santa. It debunks the belief that Thomas Nast created the original Santa. This Santa was designed when Nast was only four years old.