This is the Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. 420’s Christmas gathering in 1913. There are several men in costume and lots of children gathered in front of the decorated tree.
This is the Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. 420’s Christmas gathering in 1913. There are several men in costume and lots of children gathered in front of the decorated tree.
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What a wonderful picture!
http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg21/id/1182/rec/1
A lot has changed in 99 years. The costumes look more like Halloween than Christmas. No one appears as a modern Santa, eighteen years before he was first drawn in a Coca Cola advertisement (1931) by the beloved prolific illustrator Swedish-American Haddon Sundblom.
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-santa-claus