Illustrators began using Moore's words to mold a visual image of Santa Claus almost as soon as the poem was first printed in upstate New York's Troy Sentinel in 1823.
Of the thousands of photographs that we now generate with our cost-free digital image capture machines (read: cell phones or cameras), some of them end up getting printed.
The cards marking seating assignments on press row Wednesday bore an image of two soldiers standing over floral tributes to the tragedy, with '(hashtag)Boston' printed at the bottom.