Santa With Turkey: Harper’s Weekly, cover, December 25, 1858

One of stranger depictions of Santa Claus, a beardless man riding a sleigh pulled by a wild turkey

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On December 25, 1858, about two years after it began publication, Harper’s Weekly one of stranger depictions of Santa Claus, a beardless man riding a sleigh pulled by a wild turkey. Based on the bottles in the sleigh and the look on his face, it looks like Santa may have had a little too much Wild Turkey himself.