Curated Galleries

View of the Art Deco style Mayan Theater (Montana S. Fallis, architect, 1930) at 110 Broadway Street in the Speer Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The four story building is stone clad with Pre-Columbian motifs and a bas relief of a ritual officiate in multi-color terra cotta ornament by Julius P. Ambrusch of the Denver Terra Cotta Company. The marquee reads: "Oscar Winners, Room With A View, Color of Money, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, My Sweet Little Village."

Detailed view of the top of the facade of the Mayan Theater (architect Montana S. Fallis, 1930) at 110 Broadway in the Speer neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a polychrome terracotta Mayan figure (crafted by Julius P. Ambrusch of the Denver Terra Cotta Company) on the front of the Art Deco-style theater. The facade was restored by architects Midyette-Seieroe, in 1985.

Night view of Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado; shows snow and movie theaters. Electric signs read: "Marquette," "Iris Theater," "Isis," and "The Nanking Chop Suey, Pool."

Denver Movie Theaters: A Look Back

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH47)

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH47)

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH47)

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH7)

Photo of Daniels and Fisher Store

Interior view of the Daniels and Fisher Stores Company, in Denver, Colorado; shows women at tables with mirrors, cosmetics, flowers, and an ash tray.

View of the corner, four-story Daniels & Fisher building at 16th (Sixteenth) and Lawrence Streets in the Central Business District in Denver, Colorado. Windows have hood molding and awnings and the flat roof line has decorative brackets and finials. Shows horse drawn carriages in the street, street car tracks on 16th Street and probably telephone poles. A sign reads: "W.F. Perkins, Cigars [and] Tobacco."

Daniels and Fisher Store

Mike and Kit Strang, horse ranchers in the Roaring Fork Valley, donated a conservation easement on their 450-acre spread with a magnificent view of Mount Sopris.

Grand Tetons / moon

This artist's conception shows Titan's surface with Saturn appearing dimly in the background through Titan's thick atmosphere of mostly nitrogen and methane. The Cassini spacecraft flies overhead with its high-gain antenna pointed at the Huygens probe ...

Rocky Mountain News Favorites

Jeff Griffiths, 8, as the wicked Darth Vader. October 30, 1977. Photo by Bill Perry. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

E.T. jack-o-lantern at John Amesse Elementary School. October 27, 1982. Photo by Laura Lynn Fistler. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

“Don’t let children go empty handed on Halloween.” October 26, 1966. Unidentified photographer. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

Halloween In Denver, 1960-1988

View of lumber and debris near the intersection of B Street and Victoria Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows water in the entrance to the stone Union Depot building and submerged telephone poles and trees.

Debris from the Arkansas River flood at 2nd (Second) Street and Grand Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows mud, timber, portions of ceiling molding, and a door near the wrecked, frame "Mammoth Corral" building. The three story brick "Colorado Bedding Co." building shows paint chipped off at the high water mark above first story windows.

Interior view of White and Davis clothing store at 301 N. Main Street after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows wrecked furniture, crates, mud and debris in the aisle. Signs for "Boys Dept." and "Collars" are posted on pipe columns with Corinthian capitals. The store has a pressed metal ceiling and overhead lamps with glass globes.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ A Flood of Biblical Proportions

Marine Sgt. Jeremy Kocher stands watch near the body of Lance Cpl. Evenor Herrera

Marines escort the casket of Marine Lance Corporal Evenor Herrera to a gravesite in Eagle.

Blanca Stibbs rests her head on her husband David Stibbs' shoulder

Final Salute

Emergency workers treat wounded students during the Columbine shooting.

Dale Napoletano hugs his sister during a memorial service honoring Columbine's victims.

Fifteen crosses honoring the Columbine dead stand in the night glow.

Columbine: Images of Tragedy

Friends of Terry Barton react to the news that she had been charged with arson.

Brandi Stollak carries an American flag with Mike Stubbs.

A P3 Orion bomber drops a load of fire retardant on the Big Elk Fire near Estes Park, Colorado.

Colorado on Fire