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HTML

<div class="frame">
    <span class="helper">hi</span>
    <br />
    <span class="helper">hi</span>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=250 />
</div>
<div class="frame">
    <span class="helper">hi</span><img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=25 />
</div>

CSS

.frame {
    min-height: 25px;      /* equals max image height */
    width: 160px;
    border: 1px solid red;
    
    text-align: center; margin: 1em 0;
}

.helper {
    display: inline-block;
    height: 100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

img {
    background: #3A6F9A;
    vertical-align: middle;
    max-height: 25px;
    max-width: 160px;
}