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For generations of Penn State students, returning alumni, and other visitors, the bell tower of Old Main has provided a unique vantage point for seeing the University Park campus. The tower also afforded photographers a marvelous panorama of campus and town, particularly in earlier years when the landscape was still relatively open. Consider, for example, this photo looking northeast from the bell tower in the early 1900s. At lower right is McAllister Hall, opened as a men's residence hall in 1904 and destined to be converted to a women's dorm in 1915. At left, across Pollock Road, in the Chemistry and Physics Building (later Walker Lab), eventually razed to make way for Davey Lab in 1969. Just above it is the grandstand of Old Beaver Field, site of Penn State's intercollegiate football contests until succeeded by New Beaver Field in 1909. Above Mac Hall are several faculty "cottages" (on the site of today's Osmond Lab) and in the distance are the college farms and the faint outline of Bald Eagle Ridge or Muncy Mountain.
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