Stagg Field (Old)
| Title | Stagg Field (Old) |
| View | Interior, Miscellaneous 6 |
| Series | II: Buildings and Grounds |
| Description | A transformed squash court housed history's first successful nuclear pile. Enrico Fermi chose this room because it was the only space available with ceilings high enough to permit construction of the latticed cube-like structure of graphite bricks embedded with Uranium 235 |
| Alternate Name(s) | Amos Alonzo Stagg Field; Marshall Field |
| Subject Terms | Athletic fields | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History | Nuclear reactions--History | University of Chicago--History | Interior views |
| Photographer | Shapiro, Morton |
| Photograph Date | Undated |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 16.5 x 24.0 cm |
| Architect | Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge |
| Completion Date | 1913 |
| Location | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| Campus Grid | CH03; CH04 |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf2-07646 |
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