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

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

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,…

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

This watercolor appeared in an auction at Cowan's Auction. Here is the catalog description: Amerian, watercolor on paper. Depicting Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania, near present day Slatington. This view was executed the day after the following watercolor…

This watercolor appeared in an auction at Cowan's Auction. Here is the catalog description:
American, watercolor on paper. A bird's eye view of the Lehigh Gap, in present day Slatington, Pennsylvania. Location sited and dated Lehigh Gap, July 25th,…

The road realignment in Lehgih Gap cut off the former CNJ branch line. Access to East Palmerton was then provided by a branch of the LNE, higher up on the mountain.

CNJ on the right and LV on the left in a snowy scene from February 1967.