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It’s the holiday season. Santa Claus is an icon of that history, but he wasn’t always reaching for a soda. 🎅🎅

Covers, ads, and illustrations like these are part of our shared cultural heritage, and their preservation lets us experience not only Christmases past but also the media that shaped them.

Unwrap more vintage Holiday magazine art & more in our collection ⤵⤵️
https://archive.org/details/@iasocial/lists/6/holiday-2025-periodical-art

#HolidayArt #PeriodicalArt #Archives #CulturalMemory #ChristmasHistory

Vintage 1920 advertisement showing Santa Claus reclining against a brick chimney, smoking a cigarette. He wears a red suit and black boots, with a night sky and evergreen branches in the background. A pack of Murad “The Turkish Cigarette” peeks out of his sack of presents with holly and wrapped gifts. Large text at the top reads “MURAD THE TURKISH CIGARETTE,” and smaller text at the bottom reads, “What could you enjoy more this Xmas than Murad?” Radio Magazine cover from December 1924 showing Santa Claus flying a biplane with overlarge radio equipment over a snowy town.