Haddon Hubert "Sunny" Sundblom was a United States artist best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company. Sundblom was born in Muskegon, Michigan to a Swedish-speaking family. His father, Karl Wilhelm Sundblom, came from the farm Norrgårds in the village of Sonboda in Föglö of the Swedish-speaking Åland Islands, then part of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, and his mother Karin Andersson was from Sweden. Wikipedia
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