Adventures in Research: The Reindeer Racket

Posted by ractrose on 20 Dec 2014 in Nonfiction

Old-time advertisements, from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, most making individual use of the Santa motif; a couple of sundries.

Putting Rudolph out of business.

Menacing Santa.

That thing of the luck running out was a late invention.

Celebrate!

The twittiest Englishman of all time.

Santa, out and about, with unknown female companion, whose expression is a bit austere.

The Bowl Fire. The next thing to an open flame.

Who says they were more pious in the old days? Here’s Santa, astrology and fortune-telling combined.

Scary Santa in carpet-suit.

Rabbit-toothed, and wild of eye, Santa in weird leather get-up.

Santa confiding a scheme, to an oversized and overdressed child….or is this an elf?

Curious

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