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 ...

But it was political cartoonist Thomas Nast who created the modern Santa Claus we know and love. In 1862, Nast drew Santa for ...

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Santa Claus, in Indiana, boasts the only post office registered to Saint Nick. And their Chief Elf, Patricia Koch, aged 91, exclusively spoke to Newsweek.