# The Editor and the Giraffe

- Date: 1878
- Medium: Printed in black ink on paper
- Classification: Ephemera
- Dimensions: 30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/57269)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/054565c267a2764e3fea3b32354e96bd.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Short story of an editor being frightened by a giraffe. Upper left, back of figure surprised with hair standing up, scissors in right hand. Upper right, giraffe head coming through a window, paper’s in mouth. Lower left, figure diving head-first into a pitcher of ale.