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The University of Texas campus in 1898, as seen from about Guadalupe and 21st Street. The Old Main Building, designed by architect Frederick Ernst Ruffini, is pictured in the center, with the Chemical Laboratory, completed in 1891, on the left and B. Hall on the right. Courtesy, Prints and Photographs Collection, the Center for American History.