A little darkroom magic with Sumter's Santa Claus

Santa Claus is the late Hubert Duvall Osteen, longtime editor/publisher/owner of The Sumter Item. He's holding the Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1952, edition of The Sumter Daily Item. The darkroom photo magic - done long before Photoshop was imagined - was by the late Heyward Crowson, Sumter's photographer for many years.