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CozyMystery

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5. The toy he is holding is interesting, too

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 24, 2019, 08:38 PM

Dec 2019

I never noticed that toy, and I've seen that picture several times, until I read the article.

"Lest any reader question Santa’s allegiance in the Civil War, he wears a jacket patterned with stars and pants colored in stripes. In his hands, he holds a puppet toy with a rope around its neck, its features like those of Confederate president Jefferson Davis."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-cartoonist-created-modern-image-santa-claus-union-propaganda-180971074/

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