From St. Nicholas, 1891.

"Only twenty days to Christmas.  What are you going to get for mother?"  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.

From The Aberree, 1963.  

"The Christmas fairy arrived in October."  From Modern Screen, 1960.

From The Aberree, 1955.  

From The Aberree, 1956.  

From The Aberree, 1960.

"Why it is better to make your Christmas puddings now."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.

From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.

Via UpNorthMemories.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)

"Once Santa Claus was thin."  From The Improvement Era, 1952.

Butter and eggs as Christmas presents for multi-millionaires.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.

From The Record Changer, 1951.

From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.

"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"?  We consulted an old book of dream symbolism, The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy (1899) to see if the imagery in that old Christmas carol is auspicious.  

Chestnuts are auspicious:

From The Film Daily, 1943.

You may have already guessed where I'm going with this.  Santa smokes like, well ... like a chimney.  From The Lehigh Review, 1936.

From Manet, 1933.

At first glance we thought Santa was merely resting on a chimney.  What a terrible image for Christmas.  From The Gateway, 1972.

From Purple Parrot, 1942.