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Creepy 19th-Century Photos Show What Santa Claus Used To Look Like


These remarkable 19th-century photos reveal that Santa Claus was not always the portly, jolly, red-cheeked figure known today.

A hunchbacked, skinny, and sometimes terrifying man, the fascinating images show what Father Christmas looked like in the 19th century — before he became the cuddly, bearded man marketed to modern-day consumers.


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petapixel.com/2022/12/22/creep…

in reply to Garry Knight

You have to understand that the commonly shown image (at least in North America) is a turn of the century marketing push by Coca-Cola. The scrawny-scary ones are older from before that time.