Jolly Old Fashioned Christmas Santa Greeting Card Victorian

This Santa has apparently decided that the best way to deliver holiday cheer is through extreme close-up confrontation, his long white hair and beard whipping dramatically in the snow as he fixes the viewer with a deeply personal, slightly unhinged grin. The dark evergreen trees behind him do absolutely nothing to suggest this is a safe situation. 'A Jolly Old Fashioned Christmas to You' reads the cheerful little placard he's clutching with his gloved hand — which, paired with that wild-eyed, too-close-to-the-camera energy, lands somewhere between a holiday greeting and a hostage note. Published by Julius Rien & Co. of New York, because apparently someone in 1908 looked at this and thought: yes, this will delight children.