Chinning, Not Churning – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Chinning, Not Churning in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Chinning, Not Churning
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Its title, *Chinning, not churning*, sets up a pun between idle talk and household work, and the joke is the point of the card. The picture is a stereograph, two nearly identical photographs mounted side by side that give a three-dimensional view through a hand viewer, a format that filled American parlors in the early 1900s. Catalogers have tagged it under humor, sentimental, and courtship themes, which suits a light poke at romance for Valentine's Day. The record credits E.W. Kelley and dates the print to about 1906, but those details come from an older caption card and have not been verified.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print on stereo card, stereograph |
| Notes | E.W. Kelley |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,761 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138793 |
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
