Precarious Collection

Bricklayers 1827
A bricklayer standing on a rather precarious looking scaffold. His assistant mixes mortar behind him; his hod for carrying bricks etc is nearby

Building Emp State Buil
A dizzy perch 350 yards above street level: A New York workman (Carl Russell) engaged on the worlds tallest bulding (at the time), the Empire State Building

Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Creator: Taki Katei
Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Meiji period

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

Greenan Castle, South Ayrshire, Scotland - a 16th century tower house, possibly on the site of an ancient fort. Date: circa 1908

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

A simple device for removing a wart
Contrary to the title of this picture, a complicated and convoluted machine to help a sufferer remove a wart from his head

A climber on the classic extreme route Raven Wall on the cliffs at Bosigran, near St. Just, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Squam Lake, New Hampshire, New England, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

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

Rock climber attempts bouldering, and volcano in background, Conguillio National Park, Chile, South America

The Two Towers, Bologna, Italy. These medieval towers, both of them leaning, are the landmark of the city. The taller one is the Asinelli Tower, the shorter one the Garisenda Tower

Nichiren Calming the Storm, 19th century. Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Nichiren Calming the Storm, 19th century

Gornergrat and Matterhorn, Valais, Switzerland, Europe

Woman patient, St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London
LFB Special Services trying to help a woman patient at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London, on 15 April 1959. She has climbed out of a ward window at fifth floor level

Tiger attempting to reach big game hunter
A Tiger attempts to get at a big game hunter, sat rather precariously on a tree branch

Australia - Waterfalls series - Wentworth Falls and steps

La Coupee, Sark, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, Europe

Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at the top of a tree, Sichuan, China, January

Yemen, Hadhramaut, Wadi Do an, Hayd Al-Jazeel

Swiss guides on Canadian Pacific Rd. between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Swiss guides on Canadian Pacific Rd. between c1910 and c1915

Swiss guides on Canadian Pacific Rd. between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Swiss guides on Canadian Pacific Rd. between c1910 and c1915

N.Y.C. auto wrecked in Central Park, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
N.Y.C. auto wrecked in Central Park, between c1910 and c1915

Landing a 155 mm gun at Sedd-ul [i.e. Sedd-el] Bahr, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Landing a 155 mm gun at Sedd-ul [i.e. Sedd-el] Bahr, 1915. Warships near the Gallipoli Penninsula, Turkey during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I

A Pack Road in the Katun River Valley near the Village of Tavda. Cliff "Skakun"... 1911-1913
A Pack Road in the Katun River Valley near the Village of Tavda. Cliff "Skakun." Log Boards for the Passage of Horses over the Precipice, 1911-1913

Pioneer camp, 1929. Creator: GP Putintsev
Pioneer camp, 1929. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents drawn from the personal archives of people who lived in the town of Berdsk in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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

Snow on Mt. Haruna in Kozuke Province, 1853. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Snow on Mt. Haruna in Kozuke Province, 1853. From Famous Places of the Sixty-odd Provinces

les Italiens en Albanie ; un auto-camion italienen mauvaise posture sur le pont du Sarantaporos, a Creator: Unknown
les Italiens en Albanie ; un auto-camion italienen mauvaise posture sur le pont du Sarantaporos, a la frontiere greco-albanaise, 1916

The Twelve Months, between 1900 and 1918. Creator: Watanabe Seitei
The Twelve Months, between 1900 and 1918

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from... 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, 1830/33

Man Crossing Log Bridge over Torrent, n.d. Creator: Jan van Eyck
Man Crossing Log Bridge over Torrent, n.d

Gathering Cliff Fungus at Kumano, Kishu Province (Kishu kumano iwatake tori), from the ser... 1860
Gathering Cliff Fungus at Kumano, Kishu Province (Kishu kumano iwatake tori), from the series "One Hundred Views of Famous Views in the Various Provinces (shokoku meishi hyakkei)", 1860

Mushroom Gathering at Kumano in Kii Province (Kishu Kumano iwatake tori) from the series "... 1860
Mushroom Gathering at Kumano in Kii Province (Kishu Kumano iwatake tori) from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)", 1860

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from... 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, 1830/33

The Mitsui Shop in Surugacho in Edo (Koto Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu), from the... c. 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
The Mitsui Shop in Surugacho in Edo (Koto Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, c. 1830/33

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from... 1830/33. Creator: Hokusai
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", Japan, 1830/33

Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the... 1853
Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)", 1853

Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the... 1853
Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)", 1853

home alone
Michael Allmaier

Cliff perched homes-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Cliff perched homes-Hopi, c1906. Four Hopi women in front of pueblo buildings

Cliff "Trunk" and Shaman's Rock, 1880-1897. Creator: Pavel Mikhailovich Kosharov
Cliff "Trunk" and Shaman's Rock, 1880-1897. From a collection of paintings, lithographs, sketches, studies, and drawings

Kamchatka, Hunting Puffins, 19th century. Creators: Friedrich Heinrich Kittlitz, Victor Adam, Godefroy Engelmann
Kamchatka, Hunting Puffins, 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by Tsar

"Khabit" (Khobot) Rock and the Shaman's Stone at 4 Versts From the Village of Kaltuk... 1850-1899
"Khabit" (Khobot) Rock and the Shaman's Stone at 4 Versts From the Village of Kaltuk- Lake Baikal, 1850-1899

Goats Path, Watcombe, near Torquay, South Devon - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Prince Henry and Waldemar of Prussia
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945) with his father, Prince Heinrich (Henry) of Prussia (1862-1929) at Balmoral in the 1890s. Waldemar was the eldest son of Henry and Princess Irene of Hesse

CLIMBING IS DANGEROUS
Pressed against a sheer rockface, buffeted by a howling gale, a climber gains a vivid insight into the narrow gap betwixt life and death. Date: late 19th century

Damocles dines with a sword hanging over his head
Damocles, member of the Greek court of Dionysius of Siragusa (Syracuse), Sicily, dines dangerously, with a sword hanging over his head. Date: 404 BC

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"Capturing the Essence of Precarious: From Bricklayers to Balanced Rocks" In 1827, bricklayers showcased their skill and bravery as they precariously balanced on scaffolding, building towering structures that still stand today. A precariously perched Studebaker Six in Yosemite National Park reminds us of the delicate balance between man-made machines and nature's grandeur. The Empire State Building stands tall and proud, a testament to human ingenuity and engineering prowess, defying gravity with its precarious height. Taki Katei's exquisite artwork "Flowers and Birds" transports us back to the 19th century when delicate brushstrokes captured fleeting moments in nature's precarious beauty. Greenan Castle in South Ayrshire, Scotland stands stoically atop a cliff edge, its ancient walls teetering on the brink of time - a monument to history's precarious grip on our present. Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs unveils its awe-inspiring Balanced Rock - an extraordinary natural formation that defies logic by remaining precariously poised for centuries. Discovering a simple device for removing warts reminds us that even seemingly trivial ailments can create precarious situations if left unattended or underestimated. Raven Wall at Bosigran challenges climbers with its sheer cliffs and treacherous routes – an extreme adventure where every move is carefully calculated amidst a world hanging by a thread. William Heath Robinson's whimsical illustration "Long Drawn Out. " humorously depicts everyday tasks becoming increasingly complex and precarious – reminding us not to take life too seriously. Squam Lake in New Hampshire reflects tranquility amid uncertainty; its glassy surface mirroring both calm skies above and turbulent waters below – capturing nature's own sense of precariousness.