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I lived in Bloomington, Indiana, for 29 years and worked as an oral historian in southern Indiana on several research grants in the 1990s for Indiana University's Oral History Research Center. We looked at the interplay of [faded] ethnic identity and religion:

This is clearly a reference to Santa Claus (Indiana), located in southern Indiana's hill country.

It sits in the northern part of Spencer County. Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home is located in that very county, his family was part of an Anglo-American out migration in the 1820s and 1830s.
Therefore, the northern part of the county where Santa Claus is located was an area dominated by German American rural settlements.
It was relatively isolated, only in the mid-1870s did the Southern Railroad build a north/south line through the hills.
In the northeast there were German-speaking Catholics primarily from southwestern Germany, but also Switzerland and Alsace. Swiss Benedictines made a foundation, which became St. Meinrad Archabbey, which still is important today. There are some rural Catholic shrines, unusual for the US. 
Google Monte Cassino Shrine, Indiana, if you want to see pictures of an example.

A bit farther south sits Fulda with a Catholic Church, the interior walls are covered with beautiful stencil paintings, and also a German Evangelical congregation which moved into the UCC in the 1950s (as part of the Evangelical and Reformed Church merger with the Congregationalists).
The immediate area around Santa Claus was settled by members of the German-speaking Methodist Central Conference. The campground of the German-speaking conference was located right there in Santa Claus. It had a lot of strength in southern Indiana's hill country.

Hardwood forest covered the entire area. Logging was important and also the furniture industry with big factories in Tell City (Perry County, just to the east), and in Ferdinand, Huntingburg, and Jasper (in Dubois County, just to the north).

To this day, volunteers at the local post office in Santa Claus answer letters written to the postmaster by children who try to contact Santa.
So letter writing and the furniture industry are markers to the Santa Claus area.
Throughout Indiana there were furniture factories which specialized in making the famous Hoosier cabinets [an innovative type of kitchen cabinet], chairs, desks, beds, anything.

Limestone country is a bit farther north, it centers on Bloomington, Oolithic, Bedford.  Bedford sits at its southern edge of the area where the commercial extraction of limestone is viable. So that matches the location on the map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus,_Indiana
An early amusement park was built there, initially Santa himself was the chief attraction.
That morphed into today's Holiday World & Splashin Safari.
https://www.holidayworld.com/

Wholesome family entertainment. Some great roller coasters!
Best,
--Heiko


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My 2-cents on the red lines is that he's super busy replying to all the letters he receives at the Santa Claus, IN post office. 

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Hey Chris.

 

Were you aware of the town in Indiana named Santa Claus?  (Christmas Lake is nearby).  I have been through it a couple times when visiting relatives.

 

https://santaclausind.org/the-story-of-santa-claus-indiana/

 

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I believe that when Santa is writing at his desk he is coming across a lot of Naughty children which is the cause of the red lines.

 

Cheers.

David

 

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Hello all,

 

I am doing research on some 1930s General Drafting maps featuring Santa Claus.  Currently I am in the process of identifying and classifying each of the cartographic elements on the map.  I am having a very difficult time identifying and classifying 1 element and I have a question about another.

 

What is Santa doing with the 2 sticks in the left part of this image of Indiana?  There is a string attaching the 2 sticks at the top.  He appears to be picking up 2 things & placing them in a box.  I do not know what the things are.

Keep in mind that this from 1930 AND the activities on the map are tied to the places, so whatever Santa is doing, it is common enough in Indiana that people would know what it is.

 

The second part is the right part of the image.  Clearly Santa is sitting at a desk on a stool.  He is using a pen (inkwell on desk) to write with his right hand.  But the red exclamation marks about the desk suggest Santa is writing with anger or at least with strong words.  Who is this an homage to?  Was there in 1930 in Indiana a stern, forceful writer who was nationally know?

 

 

Many thanks!

 

 

Christopher J.J. Thiry

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