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 and 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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