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Flagstaff and Lehigh Gap.jpg
View from Flagstaff Park, Mauch Chunk, south towards Lehigh Gap in the distance

Lower Main Street and Bittner.jpg
Looking west in lower Slatington. The hotel is on the left.

Gap from Jim Thorpe.jpg
Lehigh Gap is barely visible in the distance.

Lehigh Gap Photo 1909.JPG
Photo is before the construction of the LNE railroad bridge in the gap.

Finley Bridge.jpg
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…

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

Lehigh Gap 1853.jpg
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,…

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