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This is an early Currier lithograph (G6937) of Lehigh Gap.

This appears to be a watercolor sketch done by Karl Bodmer who accompanied Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his travels in Noth America that led to the book, Maximilian Prince of Wied’s Travels in the Interior of North America,…

Watercolor of the chain bridge at Lehigh Gap. There is considerable artistic license at work with this painting from the nineteenth century.

James Finley is often credited as the father of the modern suspension bridge, and three of his designs were built over the Lehigh River. See the article about James Finley, http://www.structuremag.org/article.aspx?articleID=804, that includes…

View across the chain bridge towards the toll house and Central of New Jersey railroad tracks.

Back of photograph indicates that it was a Pennsylvania Department of Highways photograph, taken about the time the new highway bridge opened.

Photo is before the construction of the LNE railroad bridge in the gap.

Lehigh Gap is barely visible in the distance.

A Conrail train heads south through the gap in winter on the former Central of New Jersey tracks.