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View on the Lehigh River Above Mauch Chunk, by Gustav Grunewald, circa 1845.
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Oil on canvas depicting a rural, scene. A small house with a brick chimney sits in the center of the scene, with two out buildings on either side. The mountain can be seen in the distant right.

Credit: Allentown Art Museum, Purchase: Gift of Zenon Hansen, by exchange, 1982. (82.07)

This view of a Pennsylvania farm in Carbon County, painted by Gustav Grunewald in the mid -1800s, well captures of world of frontier settlers in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania in the 1700s and early 1800s.

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