Courtesy of Little Pilgrimages of Old New England Inns by Mary Ann Crawford
1850
Photo courtesy of Yale Library
1880
Photo courtesy of New Haven Colony Historical Society
1883
1884
Photo courtesy of Yale Library
1886
1887
Courtesy of EBay
1888
Courtesy of Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe by Werner Sollors
1892
Photo courtesy of New Haven Colony Historical Society
Courtesy of New Haven Guide to Architecture and Urban Design by E.M. Brown
1894
Vanderbilt Hall (the view facing the Hyperion Theatre), photo courtesy Yale University Manuscripts & Archives digital images database
1895
Photo courtesy of Yale Library
1901
An overview of New Haven Green that is decorated for the bicentennial celebration of the founding of Yale University. (Photo by Schenectady Museum; Hall of Electrical History Foundation/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
President Theodore Roosevelt and Yale President Arthur Twining Hadley leading the university’s bicentennial procession, New Haven, Connecticut, October 20, 1901. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
President Theodore Roosevelt at Yale University, 20th, United States, New York Public Library, . (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)
Courtesy of David Fear’s Mark Twain Day by Day
Mark Twain regarding Arthur Twining Hadley, then president of Yale: Now there’s a very remarkable man. I’ll never forget what he said about me, the day I was invited by Yale to come up and be given a degree. The great platform was filled with men to be honored. Our writer group was put somewhat upstage. Quite a few of the boys were there, Howells, Cable and other writers I knew; and as each was called down to receive his degree, President Hadley in a few words gave a most wonderful summing up of the character and achievements of each. As each came back, he’d whisper to me: ‘Sam, what will Hadley say about you and your dark and checkered career?’ They made me so nervous I couldn’t sit still. At last my turn came. Downstage I walked. When an official called the name of Samuel Clemens, the New Haven boys all rose to their feet and made quite a noise. When at last it was over, Hadley declared: ‘After this demonstration, anything I could say would be useless.’ Hooded and honored I came back without knowing what Hadley had meant to say. I was disappointed and so were the boys. But one of them told me, at the end of the ceremonies that day: ‘Sam, every speech that Hadley made was written ahead in a little book, which is in the hands of his secretary, that young woman over there.’ Eagerly I went to her and never have I flattered a female as I did that young woman that day. At last she let me see the book. As I turned the pages, every speech exactly as it had been spoken was there. Faster I turned them with feverish hands! And on the last page I read these lines: ‘Samuel Clemens. After this demonstration anything I could say would be useless.’ – quoted in The Bridge by Ernest Poole, p. 172.
Celebrating Yale’s bicentennial with lights strung on the New Haven Green, photo courtesy of Yale Library
Photo courtesy of Yale Library
1902
Courtesy of New Haven Guide to Architecture and Urban Design by E.M. Brown
Courtesy of The Julius Cahn-Gus Hill Theatrical Guide and Moving Picture Directory, Volume 4 By Gus Hill, Julius Cahn
1903
Hyperion Theatre program, photo courtesy of New Haven Colony Historical Society / Yale library
1904
“The Hyp,” courtesy of Yale College Class Book
1908
People standing on Chapel Street (Hyperion Theatre,) photo courtesy Yale University Manuscripts & Archives digital images database
1910
Hyperion Theatre, CT historical society photo
Courtesy of eBay
Hyperion Theatre antique wood cigar box by JP Kilfeather New Haven. Photos courtesy of eBay
Photo courtesy of Magrisso Forte.
Photo courtesy of Yale Library.
1911
Courtesy of Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin by Simon Louvish
1912
1916
Courtesy of eBay
1917
The Hyperion, Chapel Street, photo courtesy of New Haven Colony Historical Society / Yale library
1919
George B. Bunnell advertisement for Hyperion, photo courtesy of New Haven Colony Historical Society / Yale library
1923
Drawing of theater facade by Anthony F. Dumas, courtesy of Library of Congress
1928
When the City Was a Silver Screen by Richard Kim, The New Journal at Yale
1933
Photo courtesy of Cinema Treasures
“With the Shubert Theater and the Roger Sherman both fronting on College Street, this block became the core of the New Haven theater area. In 1929 the Crown Theater was constructed around the corner on Crown Street and in 1933 the entrance to the Hyperion was moved from Chapel to College Street so that it could compete more readily with the Roger Sherman. The interior remodelling of the Hyperion emphasized the screen over the stage. Part of the reason behind this costly renovation effort was the growing popularity of movies, but also it was the result of competition.” – Chapel Street Historic District nomination form
1982
Warner Hall (Hyperion Parking), photo courtesy of New Haven Colony Historical Society
1983
Hyperion Theatre, CT historical society photo
1997
Ron Coddington caricature of Roger Sherman. (MCT via Getty Images)
