<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d4593fc9-b7e5-46fc-bcc6-4f691d6aec9d/1564F152-A951-4F7B-8897-2236FD9C90A5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/dept-santa.htm" href="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/dept-santa.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.oldeworldsantas.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/dept-santa.htm"><H5>Department Store Santa: <SPAN id="click2">  <I>19th C.North America</I> </SPAN> </H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/dept-santa.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.oldeworldsantas.com/img/B9937DE2-6CE0-4647-98C5-78BB4705A8C8" alt="A stout Santa in a long red coat and stocking cap" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/dept-santa.htm"><BLOCKQUOTE> <SPAN id="capital2">D</SPAN>uring the 19th. Century, commercialism crept into Christmas gift giving in North America. Santa first began to appear on street corners, then in large department stores. 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