# Weather Frognosticator

- Date: 1878
- Medium: 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/57360)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ace37eed7601cfece90a03e85d3b107a.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Top; left, profile of frog sitting on a ladder in a bottle half-way filled with water, bottle labeled, Weather Frognostigator. Center right, profile of a bear wearing glasses, hat, and suit, facing left. Right, profile of bird with outstretched neck wrapping around bottle. Upper right, waning crescent smiling and looking down at bottle. Upper right, shinning sun, smiling down at frog in bottle. Clouds and stars in the background. Various weather forecasting terms behind bear. Bottom, poem on weather forecaster frog.