Balanced Collection

Fruit Label -- best Jaffa grapefruit
Fruit Label -- Ruth best Jaffa grapefruit, packed by Z A Chelouche, produce of Palestine. Depicting a smiling woman with a tray of fruit balanced on her head. Date: 20th century

No Fear
A curmudgeonly workman, balanced precariously on a chimney, looks at an aircraft during World War I and mutters, " Blowed if I d risk my bloomin neck"

Precariously perched Studebaker Six - Yosemite
On June 10, 1916 photographer Arthur Clarence Pillsbury broke the driving time record from Oakland to Yosemite in his new Studebaker Six

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado - one of the wonders of Pikes Region. This section of this peculiar rock formation is known as Mushroom Park

Long Drawn Out! by William Heath Robinson
A simple home cure for warts. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Cats Balancing on Cat Date: 1905

Muffin Man / Thomas Crane
The muffin man, with a tray of muffins balanced on his head, rings his handbell to attract the attention of passers-by

Super Train of Future
A gyro-balanced monorail, the super train of tomorrow will be a three-decker carrying great numbers of passengers at high speeds

Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ with the Everell single-blade propeller
Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ (msn 1165), seen with the Everell patented single-blade automatic variable- pitch propeller. The single propeller blade was balanced by a counterweight and was free to pivot

Khartoum, Sudan, Africa - Sudanese girl carrying a water pot. Date: circa 1920s

Burkina Faso - Bobo Dioulasso Region - Man and Woman
A quite stunning card showing a tribal Bobo (Zara) warrior and his wife at Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (French West Africa at this point). Date: circa 1910s

La Piedra Movediza balancing rock, Tandil, Argentina
La Piedra Movediza was a balancing rock located in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons

Large Tree Outside Houses
A tempera painting of a large, well balanced tree, standing tall outside the front gardens of some red roofed houses. Date: circa 1921

Caricature illustration, Yachting in the Yard, with a family balanced on crates and furniture, whilst the gardener drenches them with a hose. Captioned, Outdoor hobbies for the home'

The Great Blondini - walking the high wire above four lions
A slightly fanciful illustration of French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) (1824-1897) - walking the high wire above a pit of four large male lions. Date: circa 1850s

Vegetable Seller, Paris
A working class woman in Paris, selling vegetables from a basket balanced on her head Date: 16th century

ORANGE & LEMON SELLER ORANGE & LEMON SELLER
A woman sells oranges and lemons from baskets on her arm and balanced on her head Date: 18th century

MUFFIN SELLER / PETHERICK
A muffin man with a tray of muffins balanced on his head rings a handbell to let people know of the fresh muffins for sale Date: circa 1880

GIRL WITH POTS C1850
A German girl with remarkably long plaits carries her basket of earthenware pots securely balanced on her head. Date: circa 1850

Street trade - muffin man
Muffin man coming round on Sunday would balance them on a tray on his head, ringing a large bell, calling out Muffins... Muffins.... Date: Circa 1905

Old Lisbon street
A woman walks through a rough, graffiti daubed street in old Lisbon, Portugal. She carries a large sack on her head. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1989

Motto - for Office use - Keep your books well balanced. An accountant does his best to do just this in front of his Junior staff, unaware that the boss is arriving...! Date: 1907

A man from Syria and an Egyptian Woman. Date: 1821

Fish Sellers - Cairo, Egypt. The taller gentleman on the left (holding the scales) appears to be blind. Date: circa 1910s

The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou, Ivory Coast
The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou (Bonduku, Bontuku) a town in the Bondoukou Department of Ivory Coast, located in the Zanzan Region. Date: circa 1910s

Portugal - Lisbon Girl Street Seller Date: 1930s

Elderly lady fruit seller - Nassau, Bahamas Caption: " Anything Today Missus?" Date: 1945

Deportment Lesson
A proper young lady learns the art of deportment, walking with the obligatory book balanced on the head, shoulders back and head held up! Date: 1930s

Africa woman carrying maize on her head
A Native Beauty - Africa. A superb photograph of a young woman carrying corn (maize) in a basket balanced on her head. Date: circa 1930s

Carrying a heavy load on the head - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

The Lady Globe-Trotter, Miss Florence
Miss Florence, a young American woman, who walked from London to Brighton on a ball in June 1903. Quite literally, a globe trotter. Date: 1903

Balanced Rock, Bliss State Park, Lake Tahoe, California, USA
Balanced Rock at Bliss State Park, Lake Tahoe, California, USA. Date: late 1930s

Tango craze: the handstand step, 1913
The latest additional tango step, imported from the Wild West but performed here on stage in Paris, which combines the high kick of the ballet with the approximation of partnership in the tango.The

Women carry vegetables through a cactus plantation - Israel (then under Ottoman control). Date: circa 1916

Russian porter with a large wooden bucket on his head Date: 1902

Carrying Native Beer - South Africa
Four children (of varied ages) carrying Native-brewed ( Kafir ) Beer - South Africa Date: circa 1903

Jamaican Banana Sellers, carrying impressive loads on their heads. Date: circa 1908

Washer Women - Bermuda with their laden donkey cart. Date: circa 1910s

Four-winged one-cylinder balanced motor. Hargrave Slide 74

Hargrave with four-winged balanced motor. Hargrave Slide 73

Steam engine with flash boiler and balanced wings. Hargrave Slide 40a

Sopwith TF2 Salamander production version with horn balanced upper ailerons and enlarged fin and rudder

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods. Date between 1898 and 1905

Balanced diet for the expectant mother Inquire at the Health Bureau. Poster promoting proper diet and prenatal care for pregnant women, showing a bowl of fruit. Date between 1936 and 1939

Romania - Bakers Assistant
A studio photograph of young Bakers Assistant with a basket of breads and pastries balanced on his head Date: 1903

India - Women carrying milk on their heads in stacked pots Date: circa 1910

Madagascar - Girl carrying a large round jar
Madagascar - A young Girl carrying a large round jar on her head Date: circa 1908

California - The Agassiz Column, Yosemite National Park, USA. Date: circa 1910s

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