The landforms of Connecticut, by Joseph Bixby Hoyt.
An ethnic history of New Haven: Pre-1638.
These old houses of Connecticut.
1614
By the long tidal river, by Arthur E. Soderlind.
1638
The landing at Quinnipiac, by Ernest Hickock Baldwin.
1641
1642
Ascent of Agiocochook, by Darby Field and two Abenaki guides.
1660
The Southernmost holding of New Haven Colony.
1664
How the people lived in New Haven Colony.
1670
A house, barn, home lot and orchard.
1684
1724
A map of the plan of New Haven when there were only 157 houses, drawn by Joseph Brown.
1761
Roger Sherman moved to New Haven, and opened a store across from Yale College.
1770
Roger Sherman completed building his house.
1775
The first engraving in New Haven, by Amos Doolittle and Ralph Earl. General George Washington reviewed the local troops on the Green, accompanied by Noah Webster with his fife. Portrait of Roger Sherman, by Ralph Earl.
1779
The British invaded New Haven and ransacked Roger Sherman’s home. The Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis fought a battle without parallel in naval history..
1784
Roger Sherman swapped land with a neighbor, and his store accepted non-currency as payment.
1786
A plan of part of Chapel Street, showing the buildings and occupants.
1787
Character sketch of Roger Sherman, by William Pierce.
1789
To John Adams, from Roger Sherman. The stagecoach tour through New England, when President George Washington dropped in for tea. To George Washington, President of the United States of America.
1793
Rebecca Prescott Sherman, mother of men. Among the pithy sayings of Roger Sherman — a Connecticut man.
1821
New Haven Green and the Grove Street Cemetery, by Ellen Strong Bartlett.
1825
An American Empire style sofa made in about 1825, by Frances Phipps.
1831
We revere thee, Rock, that long has stood.
1855
Last residence of Roger Sherman, no. 1050 Chapel Street.
1860
The Rail Splitter speech in New Haven, by Abraham Lincoln. The Wide-Awakes of Connecticut: a most remarkable scene. Gaius Fenn Warner, iron magnate, purchased the Roger Sherman plot, and built a new house, with a double bow front, by architect Henry Austin.
1865
Frederick Douglass attended the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
1868
Presentation of the Roger Sherman watch to General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1872
Roger Sherman statue, by Chauncey B. Ives.
1874
The Connecticut shore of the Sound, illustrated by William M. Gibson.
1876
The Thomas P. Merwin house, the William Bartlett house, and the Eighmie patent shirt.
1880
Peter Carll’s Opera House: from construction to the grand opening night.
1882
An account of the Junior Promenade of ’82, by Frederick W. Rogers.
1883
Red Cloud visits a friend: the great Indian chief is the guest of Prof. Marsh in New-Haven. The Carriage Builders’ Convention: inside, a grand banquet, and large tents set up behind Carll’s Opera House. Rode on a handcar: Mary Anderson’s exciting effort to fill an engagement.
1884
Yale’s first banjo club, by Marshall Bartholomew. New Haven’s great park: East Rock.
1885
A Model State Capitol (1885), by Frank Opel.
1886
Three prominent men descended from Roger Sherman. On a dark and stormy night, the New Haven Yacht Club’s first concert.
1887
New Haven in 1887, by Walter Allen. Dr. Winchell takes legal possession and receives the keys. George B. Bunnell takes over the lease on May 1, and from that time it will be known as the Hyperion. Dedication of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, on East Rock. The Republican League purchases the club house on Chapel street. The improvements completed, a vast change in the appearance of the Hyperion.
1888
Every wheel leaves its print upon the soil, by Frederick Douglass. Republican wine bibers, and the first annual banquet of the club.
1889
The only perfectly educated school of horses in the world.
1890
With the help of a few extra players and a piano, by Charles Ives.
1891
A brick block and a brick barn to be erected by Dr. Winchell and Mr. Hughes. New Haven’s old and esteemed citizen, Peter R. Carll, has returned from his stay in California.
1892
Truly living whist is played on the stage. The League gave their first shore dinner.
1893
The theater of New England, by George B. Bunnell. The Warner, student apartments at 1044 Chapel street, by Henry A. Warner.
1894
Jean Pardee on, “The Yale man Up-to-Date.” Charles Ives on, “After the Ball.” Vanderbilt Hall, gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt in memory of his son.
1895
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra, by Morris Steinert. Ode to the Frog of the Bandusian Font, by Henry Augustin Beers.
1896
1897
Undergraduate Life at Yale, by Henry E. Howland, with illustrations by Orson Lowell.
1898
The development of the Green as a public square, by Henry Taylor Blake.
1901
The Yale record: 1701 – 1901. Decorations: festoons of bunting, imported lanterns. The celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of Yale University, October the twentieth to October the twenty-third, A. D. nineteen hundred and one. Yale’s bicentennial: the gown laid aside. Booker T. Washington, a guest of honor. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a doctor of letters. A mad world and its inhabitants, by Julius Chambers.
1902
Another big hotel rumor. Interesting historical paper read by Judge Baldwin last night. The corner stone of the addition to the Union League Club building was laid with fitting ceremonies. President Theodore Roosevelt toured the city of Hartford in a state-of-the-art horseless carriage aka electric car, designed by a member of the Union League Club of New Haven, William Hooker Atwood.
1903
The Union League Club opens new building most auspiciously. The Union League Club of New Haven — House Rules.
1904
1905
This was Connecticut: images of a vanished world, by T. S. Bronson.
1906
The Menace of Mechanical Music, by John Philip Sousa. Klaw & Erlanger Co.’s stupendous production of Gen. Wallace’s mighty play, “Ben Hur.” Noted men of Connecticut as published in the columns of The Evening Leader of New Haven, by Edward James Hall.
1907
New Hyperion manager, E. D. Eldridge.
1908
The New Haven Grays offer the military opera, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Williams and Walker star in the side-splitting comedy, “Bandanna Land.” The Ben Greet Players and Russian Symphony Orchestra present, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with Mendelssohn’s music. The Shermans have ruled America, by Dr. B. J. Cigrand.
1909
1910
1912
The Taft Hotel, by F. M. Andrews and Company Architects. Delegates taken in group of autos to see permanent pavings of the Elm City.
1913
Governor Simeon E. Baldwin talks with James B. Morrow on the dominant questions of the day. Cut of $5,500 tablet given Sylvester Zefferino Poli on the occasion of his 25th anniversary.
1914
Three Yale students were arrested toward the close of a show given by Gaby Deslys at the Hyperion Theatre. Connecticut is coming to be famous for its fruit.
1915
Annette Kellerman and the spectacle of the female form, by Peter Catapano. Schoolboys posed at the premiere of the film, “Birth of a Nation.”
1916
Old seaport town of New Haven, by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
1918
The days of real sport — Spanish influenza and World War I, in American newspapers. WEAR A MASK and Save Your Life! — Doctors wear them. Those who do not wear them get sick. The person who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker. Petey Dink: 1918 Influenza Pandemic Comic Strips, by H. A. Voight.
1919
S. Z. Poli presents the Hyperion Players, in “Trilby,” by George Du Maurier. It takes all kinds of freshmen, by Ralph Mcallister Ingersoll. Looking back to the days when our Connecticut drummers discovered what “pep” means to business, by James A. Howard.
1920
On a pair of leather suspenders, by Charles S. Brooks.
1921
Flames spread quickly; survivor says many in front seats couldn’t have escaped.
1924
Wild night of the bogus multi-millionaire who hadn’t a cent to pay for it all. Hyperion Theater to be rebuilt with beautiful structure.
1926
New Haven’s newest theater: the Roger Sherman.
1927
1930
The Hyperion is closed for the summer to undergo remodeling.
1935
The New Haven home of Roger Sherman, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt.
1943
A Connecticut Yankee at Yale, by Wilbur L. Cross.
1948
Spaghetti palace jester entertains patrons, by Dick Bothwell.
1949
1954
Theaters at the mid-block, by Elihu Rubin.
1962
Remarks at New Haven Green, by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
1963
The Union League available, price $165,000.
1968
La Crêpe, at Chapel Square Mall.
1969
Yale history made by freshman girl.
1970
May King’s prophecy, by Allen Ginsberg. Old clubhouse to be street people’s center. Anna Wilson Dickinson is married in Illinois to Richard Booth Platt.
1971
Women of Yale, by Harriet H. Coffin.
1974
Burger birthplace faces bulldozer, by Michael Knight.
1975
Tiny lunch counter outfoxed the wrecker ball by 48 hours.
1976
A heritage collection of United States stamps commemorating the Bicentennial, by the U. S. Postal Service. Another dignified, well-made building, standing empty, by Elizabeth Mills Brown. Former Union League will be going ‘Publick,’ by Walter Dudar. They gave us liberty: Roger Sherman, by Ellsworth S. Grant.
1977
Sherman’s Taverne by the green, by Ernest Nejame. The last picture shows, by Allen M. Widem.
1978
Good Food at The Place, by Gloria and Jacques Pepin.
1979
Business whiz stirs renewal, by David Wessel.
1980
Where have all the farmers gone? by LuAnn Zukowsky.
1981
Joel Schiavone developing downtown, by Linda Schupack.
1982
Dream for a theater district coming true, by Kristi Vaughn.
1983
ARTHUR (A Reader That Understands Reflectively), by Granger. Implemented by New Haven’s transportation department, the improvements include wider sidewalks, extensions at their corners and parallel parking on both sides of the street, leaving two lanes of traffic. Hail to the Chef: A Tribute to the Elder Statesman of American Cooking, by Jane and Michael Stern.
1984
1985
Prime commercial space now available.
1986
1987
Who owns the block? by Diane Richards. Joel Schiavone; a gadfly without socks or sacred cows, by Bill Ryan. Edwardian splendor in New Haven, by Barbara C. White. If Robert Henry’s is not the best restaurant in Connecticut, what is? by Jane and Michael Stern. The only handwritten draft of the Bill of Rights, by Roger Sherman of Connecticut.
1988
Desserts that sin not, by Carla Van Kampen. Jo McKenzie, restaurateur, by David Fink. Rap music, brash and swaggering, enters mainstream, by Glenn Collins.
1989
In a New Haven garage, neon art glows, by Andi Rierden. Joel Schiavone turned the abandoned Union League into a sumptuous corporate office, by Steven Mufson. An actor in the role of his great-great-great-great-grandfather, by Nancy Cacioppo. Old Campus night owls acquire gate-climbing skills, by Meredith Hobbs.
1990
An acre of seats in a garden of dreams, photos by John Lewis. A little less luxury, by Deborah Hornblow.
1992
Jacques Pépin covers food for the Games, by Linda Giuca.
1993
Famous restaurant reborn with a French accent. Union League Café serves up elegant fare, by Rebecca Howland.
1995
I’ll see you in court, by Michelle Chihara.
1997
1998
A magnificent old structure, slated for demolition, by David Ottenstein.
1999
Rebuilt brasserie reopens, by Claudia Van Nes. Interpreting the rocks of New Haven, by William Zimmer.
2001
Hand-painted clubroom murals, by Sally Colbert.
2002
Mama Jo makes it happen, by Pat Seremet.
2004
One part food, one part France, three parts personality, by Jessica Tom. Historical renovation, by Kenneth Boroson Architects.
2005
Stirring the pot with Jean-Michel Gammariello, by Jeremy Shapiro. Signs of the time, by Sarah Laskow.
2006
Cutting the transcultural rug: an evening with Robert Farris Thompson, by Alan Lockwood.
2007
‘Our beef with Texas, by Andy Horowitz. Tradition lives on at Union League, by Rachel Engler. Dutan Duran and the Kileys in the Clubroom.
2008
New Haven photographer David Ottenstein documents a disappearing era, by Michael Harvey. New Haven’s cultural offerings make the city an attractive destination, by Christopher Capozziello. Using streets to rebuild communities, by the Project for Public Spaces. Not representation, but re-presentation, by Michael Harvey.
2011
Blind date at the Union League Café.
2012
A Union League union, by Paul Bass. Romantic rendezvous for spring, by Stephanie Lyness. Downtown alive, by Kenneth R. Gosselin. Professional photographer finds iPhone a fun way to capture a moment, by Pamela McLoughlin.
2013
Night rainbow, by Yvette Mattern.
2014
L’Occitane en Provence, at Warner Hall. On the road to happily ever after, by Linda Giuca.
2015
In conversation: Gregory Crewdson and Richard Deming, by Gideon Broshy. Cruising the Mediterranean with Jacques Pépin, by Jane Sigal.
2017
Portrait of a vanishing landscape, by Jonathan Turner.
2019
The creative genius of Jacques Pépin, by Robert Rabine. Say bonjour to Union League’s new Paris-style patio, by Leeanne Griffin.
2020
Eateries help support health care workers, by Stephen Fries. Dr. Robert Farris Thompson remembers the spirit of Basquiat, by Sotheby’s.
2022
Stained glass windows and a snow squall at the Union League Café.