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English: “Merry Christmas to All”
  • Harper’s Weekly, December 29, 1865

Ulysses the giant killer

Depicts Santa Claus presiding over a holiday play featuring General Ulysses S. Grant playing the role of Jack in the Beanstalk. The oversize severed heads of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, John Bell Hood, and Richard Ewell rest at his feet.
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Source ‘The Invention of Santa Claus’ Exhibit
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Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)  wikidata:Q214957 s:en:Author:Thomas Nast
 
Thomas Nast
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Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast
Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist
Date of birth/death 27 September 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 7 December 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador
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England, Italy, USA
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  • credit: New-York Historical Society
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