Puck Christmas 1901 is a photograph by Photo Researchers which was uploaded on October 23rd, 2014.
Puck Christmas 1901
Entitled Puck Christmas 1901 chromolithograph showing Santa Claus with a pack full of toys and two children and an infant; they have chosen books The... more
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Puck Christmas 1901
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Photo Researchers
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Entitled "Puck Christmas 1901" chromolithograph showing Santa Claus with a pack full of toys and two children and an infant; they have chosen books "The works of Tolstoi", "Montaigne's Essays", and "Microscopic Analysis, vol. IV" rather than toys as their presents. The boy has also selected a "Phonograph" and the infant has a microscope. Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. It was the first magazine to carry illustrated advertising and the first to successfully adopt full-color lithography printing for a weekly publication. Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle and simply Santa, is a figure with legendary, historical and folkloric origins who, in many Western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children on December 24th, the night before Christmas Day. He is generally depicted as a portly, joyous, white-bearded man, sometimes with spectacles, wearing a red coat with white collar and cuffs, white-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots and who carries a bag full of gifts for children. Illustrated for Puck and published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, December 4, 1901.
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October 23rd, 2014
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