Photo by Harry H. Buckwalter, History Colorado, Buckwalter CollectionA group of children, delivery boys and girls, pose outside of The Denver Post newspaper office on 16th Street in Denver between 1890 and 1910. A sign reads: "The Denver Post, Every Day In The Year."
Photo by Charles S Lillybridge, History ColoradoBoys pose with a bicycle and copies of The Denver Post near Archer Canal in Denver between 1914 and 1918. Bags of papers are on the handlebars.
Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryLights illuminate a view of The Denver Post headquarters on 16th Street in downtown Denver between 1900 and 1907. Signs read: "The Post" and "Daniels and Fisher."
History Colorado, Buckwalter CollectionA group of men stand on the sidewalk in front of The Denver Post office on 16th Street, Denver between 1890 and 1910. Two boys hold newspapers and one man holds two dogs on leashes. Sign reads: "Perini Bros. Umbrellas." Photo by Harry H. Buckwalter,
Photo provided by Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryA portrait of Tom Payne, a Denver Post newspaper delivery boy in Denver between 1900 and 1920. He wears bib overalls and holds newspapers.
Photo by Charles S Lillybridge, History ColoradoIndoor portrait of a family in Denver between 1904 and 1915. One boy holds a page from The Denver Post on his lap. An Underwood typewriter, bureau with fold-out desk, a bed and a potbelly stove are in the room.
Photo provided by Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryMen and boys pose next to an elephant in Denver between 1900 and 1920. The animal has a blanket with letters: "Little Hip, New York Hippodrome" and a bag with letters: "The Denver Post." It offers a newspaper held in its trunk to one of the men.
Photo by Ola Anfenson Garrison, History ColoradoStudio portrait of a man in Colorado. He holds a copy of The Denver Weekly Post and wears a wide-brimmed hat between 1910 and 1930.
Photo by George L. Beam, Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryA view of a parade in Denver between 1920 and 1930 shows men and women aboard a tractor Denver & Rio Grande Western train float with a bell and banners: "Motive Power By McCarty-Sherman Ford" and "Denver Post Special."
Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryDenver newspaper police reporters including George Flanagan, Mudge Ransom, George Minot, Walter Lovelace, Johnny Day and Joe Satterthwaite pose in front of the old Denver City Hall in 1912.
Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryIt was typical in the early 1900's for crowds to gather in front of The Denver Post building to listen to sporting events and other big news. People crowd Champa Street by The Denver Post headquarters in downtown Denver between 1915 and 1925, probably to listen to a sporting event. Signs read: "Lunch Room" and "Seed and Floral Co."
Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryNighttime view of a man who aims a searchlight from the roof of The Denver Post headquarters between 1920 and 1940. Part of the Gas and Electric Building is in the background.
The Denver PostThe Union Pacific fireman didn't have to stoke his engine. There was enough lung power in The Denver Post-Cheyenne Frontier Days special to run all the engines in Union Station on July 26, 1921. Every guest on the train wanted to be the first into Cheyenne. That's why so many of them wanted to ride on top of the engine.
The Denver PostMen gather on Sept. 3, 1924 at The Denver Post's Special train which is taking them on a trip.
The Denver PostThe Denver Post Classified Department is shown in this Oct. 28, 1928 photograph.
Photo provided by Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryAn elephant stands at The Denver Post newspaper classified advertising counter in Denver on Aug. 18, 1931. Men, women and a girl look on. Sign reads: "Want Ads." Banner reads: "...& Marco's Circus Days."
Photo by Harry Mellon Rhoads, Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryAmelia Earhart and Frederick G. Bonfils pose outdoors near a Beech Nut Autogyro at Denver Municipal Airport in June, 1931. Spectators stand nearby.
The Denver PostDenver Post Editors Hugh Miller, Joseph Dunn, Otto, A.M.C. Shepherd, Charles Bonfils, Josiah M. Nard, F.J. Kasdorf, Guy Norton and Gen. Frank Hall are shown in a 1933 photo.
The Denver PostIn this 1933 photo the Justice statue is shown above The Denver Post building.
Photo by Harry Mellon Rhoads, Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryFrederick G. Bonfils, owner and editor of The Denver Post, poses with Gov. W. M. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma and Volney Hoggatt in Denver between 1932 and 1933.
The Denver PostBoy Scouts from Julesburg pose in a Feb. 21, 1932 photograph when they visited The Denver Post. The boys saw a metropolitan newspaper in the making. They are here with copies of The Post's big Sunday comic section, which provided plenty of interest. The troop was brought by Dr. F. E. Edwards, scoutmaster. They were taken on a sightseeing tour of the city and then returned to Julesburg.
Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryNighttime view of The Denver Post headquarters at 1544 Champa Street in downtown Denver. Cars are parked by streetlights in this 1937 photo.
Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryPeople crowd Champa Street by The Denver Post headquarters to listen to a broadcast of a boxing match between Joe Louis and Tommy Farr on Aug. 30, 1937. Some listeners sit in a truck with a sign: "Gallagher Transfer Co."
The Denver PostEntertainment and election returns were pleasantly mingled in the editorial rooms of The Denver Post on Tuesday Sept. 6, 1940 when radio station KOA brought its concert orchestra to The Post's newsroom to present a delightful program on the air between the reading of voting figures.
The Denver PostEven the worst snowstorm in Denver in 33 years didn't stop Jerry Harrison from covering his Denver Post delivery route on Nov. 5, 1946. Deep snow made his bicycle almost useless except to tote his newspaper bag.
The Denver PostJolting along in the Old DeadWood Stagecoach Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of The Denver Post, and his guests head for Frontier Park and Cheyenne's Frontier Days celebration after traveling from Denver in The Post's Special train July 22, 1947. Sitting in the stagecoach are (left to right): Gov. Lee Knous of Colorado; Mayor Quigg Newton; Charles P. Skouras of National Theaters Corporation; Col. R. Jack Beam of Lowry Field; Mr. Hoyt; Brig. Gen. Omar Quade of Fitzsimons General Hospital; A. J. Seits of Union Pacific; Frank H. Ricketson Jr. of Fox-lntermountain Theaters; John S. Sinclair of the New York Life Insurance Company; and George F. Ashby, Union Pacific president.
Orin A. Sealy, Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryInterior view of the press room at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver in March, 1949. Harry Tarvin talks on the telephone by a rolltop desk and paper cup dispenser. Bert Hanna and Thor Severson work to the side; pin-up girl drawings are on the wall.
Floyd Haley McCall, Western History Collection, Denver Public LibraryEd Lehman holds a script for John Buchanan, a Denver Post columnist, in Denver on Nov. 5, 1949. Buchanan speaks into a microphone and wears headphones.
The Denver PostA Denver Post photographer works atop his truck on Trail Ridge Road at Rocky Mountain National Park in this 1940's photograph.
The Denver PostThe mechanics of producing a newspaper go on day after day. The finished product is delivered by carrier to homes, news-boys hawk editions on streets and trains. Planes and trucks carry papers to distant places. This was "Newspaper Week," an appropriate time to illustrate a bit of the process that lies behind the 227,028 daily circulation and the 357,406 Sunday circulation of The Denver Post.
Albert Moldvay, The Denver PostTony and Adolt work in The Denver Post mailroom in 1949.
The Denver PostDenver Post Roving Editor Robert (Red) Fenwick consults his friend, G-Boy, before they take off to call on the thirteen Rocky Mountain Empire governors to invite them to the grand opening of The Denver Post's new plant in 1950. Fenwick, who probably has the biggest newspaper "beat" in the nation — the entire Rocky Mountain Empire — will present each governor with one silver-mounted spur on behalf of editor and publisher Palmer Hoyt.
The Denver PostDenver Post telephone operators had a rollicking day when more than 20,000 calls came into the board. That day, of course, was election day. Fifteen persons worked on phones in room 403 from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., telling confused voters where their battle with the new voting machines was supposed to take place. Three operators working the Election-Day night shift were, left to right, Claire Haines, Ava Westcot and Dollie Wilson. Chief Operator Dorothy Jaenson said the day, despite the heavy load of calls, went "very smoothly."
Courtesy of Downtown Denver PartnershipThe Denver Post building at 15th and California in the mid-1950s.
The Denver PostEvery available hand was thrown into the election front Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1950 at The Denver Post to answer telephone calls from frantic would-be voters seeking information about the location of their polling stations. Standing by for the calls, which flooded The Post switchboard, are (left to right, front row) Ted Johnson, Mardella Hullet and Mary Walker, and (second row) Gordon Young, Helen Defoe, James Hicks, Dorothy Trask and Wilma Markle and (third row) Gloria James, Fannie Pfeifer, Elizabeth Arraj, Madge Metz, Virginia Githens and Emma McKay. These employes were only part of The Post's election information corps.
The Denver PostDoorstep delivery of a large metropolitan newspaper became a reality for thousands of New Mexico residents with the inauguration of The Denver Post's airborne New Mexico edition in this April 8, 1950 photograph. The service, a journalistic landmark in western newspaper history, includes Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Raton, and communities surrounding these cities. Delivering an afternoon Post, printed in Denver earlier in the day, is Larry Miller. His customer is Mrs. Marianna Seefeldt of Albuquerque.
The Denver PostNo, they are not new Dick Tracy characters. It's only a few members of The Denver Post's little men's marching and free-lunch society, demonstrating the latest in April Fool's gimmicks and gadgets to staff writer Robert Stapp, in a March 31, 1950 photograph. They are (left to right) staff writer Donald Sterling, dressed as Frankenstein, munches merrily on a freshly trapped rubber mouse; George McWilliams, rewriteman, as the intelligent Bobbsy twin; Thompson R. Watt, picture editor, the dog face boy, and Wayne Phillips, staff writer, as Peg-leg Pete the Pittsburgh Pirate. Stapp is behind the face at extreme left.
The Denver PostEn route to the Colorado State Fair at Pueblo, the Sterling High School Championship Band makes a stopover in downtown Denver on Sept. 7, 1953 to give a Labor Day concert in front of the California Street entrance to The Denver Post. The snappy band, shown in marching formation, is the official band for the state fair.
The Denver PostGov. Daniel Thornton visits with two carrier boys for The Denver Post, Don Kinonen, left, 14, and Clyde (Bucky) Shrader, 12, at the statehouse in Denver after proclaiming Saturday, Oct. 2, 1954 as Newspaper Boy Day in Colorado. The governor told the youths "the newspaper boy performs an important public information service. In storm or sunshine, he performs this task. He is a businessman and merchandising his printed wares is his business."
The Denver PostIn an Oct. 1955 photograph, a Poster Camera operator works at The Denver Post.
The Denver PostFour Denver Post carrier boys entertained as guests July 4, 1955 at the Red Ryder ranch at Pagosa Springs, watch Fred Harman, creator of the Red Ryder comic, drawing his daily comic strip, which appears in The Denver Post. Left to right are Harman, Vincent Aultman of Thornton, Larry Morrison of Cheyenne, Wyo., circulation supervisor Rod Gentzkow of Denver, George Clarion of Farmington, N. M., and Tommy Wills of Colorado Springs. The four boys were selected from among 1,200 country circulation carriers for their outstanding performance.
The Denver PostThe snack car on The Denver Post's Frontier Days special train for Cheyenne is jammed with prominent guests enjoying a second breakfast on their trip to the Wyoming capital city on July 24, 1956. Nearly 900 businessmen and office holders made the day-long jaunt as guests of The Post on the 17-car Union Pacific Train.
The Denver PostDenver Post editorial employees are shown in a Nov. 6, 1956 photograph.
The Denver PostPart of the fun at the Denver Post Mid-Summer Frolic at Lakeside Park, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1956 for many families was using the park's picnic facilities shown here. Admission, rides, a musical show, nickels and dancing were free to Denver Post readers using the coupons printed in each day's edition.
The Denver PostDespite a luggage handicap, an unidentified man reaches for rolling grapefruit to help Denver Post reporter Lynn Lilliston who staged distress scenes to test male courtesy in Denver on Jan. 20, 1957. The man in center seems like he's about to join in the pickup. Others didn't respond.
The Denver PostDenver Post carriers celebrate the successful completion of a Sunday circulation drive in Sterling on Nov. 13, 1956, which resulted in 500 new subscriptions. The boys and their hosts at the dinner are (from left around table) Jim Reichert, Eddie Sims, Gordon Reichert, Monte Shults, Francis Goss, Jack Hechman, district advisor J. Reed, distributor David Welch, Mrs. Welch, supervisor Ben Davis, supervisor Roy Reed, Joe Holliday, Don Mogus, Dennis Herman, Jody Nolan, Lewie Trammell and Charles Miner.
The Denver PostA Denver Post carrier is shown in this 1950s era photograph.
The Denver Post Library Archive"In Denver, Everyone Reads The Post." Salesmen for the Macklem Holsum Baking Company open their Denver Posts to read about "heart of milk" protein, an important nutritional addition to Holsum bread in 1952. According to Holsum, the protein is made from milk and balances the cereal protein in flour to provide 71 percent more body building proteins.
The Denver PostIn this May 15, 1955 photo Allan H. Williams thought he was really becoming an independent businessman when he got a Denver Post delivery route in Colorado Springs but he reckoned without his sister, Judie. She demanded her share. So here they are, starting on the cooperative route. Judie works nearby stops.
The Denver PostPressman Joseph Handran works in The Denver Post pressroom in a Jan. 22, 1959 photograph.
The Denver PostDenver Post pressmen Sam Reno, left, and Ray Smith test the special cores and equipment necessary to feed aluminum foil into the presses on April 27, 1958. The 190-pound roll provided foil pages for 8,000 copies of The Post.
The Denver PostPost Carriers have Holiday at Denham, carrying their own banner, some 800 Denver Post carriers whoop it up happily outside the Denham Theater on Saturday Dec. 31, 1961. They viewed a private showing of "King of Kings" as a holiday gift from Mrs. Vera Cockrill, owner of the Denham. District supervisors joined the party to distribute refreshments and hold door prize drawings.
The Denver PostDick has the papers wrapped and packed in bags and starts off on his bicycle to deliver The Denver Post to his daily customers Oct. 19, 1961.
The Denver PostThis is the inside story of a newspaper, the many little cogs that turn the wheels of a city journal. It is told in observance of National Newspaper Week Oct. 14-21, 1961. Here in the city room is where it starts. Reporters are busy writing their stories, editors scan them for accuracy and style and send them along to the printers.
The Denver PostDenver Post cartoonist Paul Conrad displays his work. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for his 1963 body of work.
The Denver PostSome 250 Denver Post employees received the tuberculin skin tests at the Post building in November 1962 under the Tuberculosis Society's program. Dr. Richard S. Bolten, a society volunteer, administers the test to E. Ray Campbell, president of The Post. Others, from left, are Mrs. Donna Patterson, elevator operator; Mrs. Nina Koogle, Post nurse; Robert Zeis, assistant personnel director; Barry Morrison, entertainment writer; Edward Rbdden, circulation department; Robert Pattridge, city editor; and Mrs. Jerry Weidman of the TB society staff. Christmas Seal collections pay for such services.
George Crouter, The Denver PostJ. C. Todd posts early results on Election Day, 1962 in The Denver Post newsroom.
The Denver PostThese faces in The Denver Post newsroom in Nov. 22, 1963, mirror the grief displayed by thousands of Denverites when they heard the news that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. Left to right, John Buchanan, Don Davis, Dick Johnston, Bick Lucas, Frank Harraway and John Toohey.
The Denver PostDenver Post employees work in a part of the newsroom in this 1960's-era photograph.
Lowell Georgia, The Denver PostThe Denver Post newsroom, shown in an Oct. 30, 1964 photograph from which KLZ-TV and radio broadcasts Election Day coverage through cooperative reporting by the newspaper and broadcast staffs. Denver, suburban and state elections results, were reported rapidly through combined facilities.
The Denver PostPat Oliphant, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning works in his office in this May, 1967 photograph.
The Denver PostBryce Hedstrom of Evergreen delivers papers from his cart with his Shetland named Stormy in this April 15, 1971 photograph.
Steve Larson, The Denver PostThe California Street employees entrance, in the days when the Denver Post was an evening Paper, shows off it's now-banned illuminated sign in 1970.
The Denver PostIn a June 8, 1972 photograph Post Pressmen observe a moment of silence for Helen Bonfils, who died on June 6, 1972.
The Denver PostDenver Post carrier Brian Endsley, 12, of Jefferson City, has found his Shetland pony, Edna. She makes an ideal paper carrier in February 1975. Edna, boarded with other horses near the Endsley home, can carry more newspapers than Brian can put on a bicycle, and there's room for his pet dog, Shasta, to ride along. The pony took its only rest on Sundays, when Brian's father, William Endsley, would drive the boy around for the route.
The Denver PostThe Denver Post newsroom is shown in a 1974 photograph.
The Denver PostJunior Miss Contestants Learn Newspaper Operations on Feb. 2, 1976. Tom Barry, right, Denver Post tour director, explains Denver Post stereotype department process to a group of senior high school girls who toured the newspaper. They were among 38 contestants for the title of 1976 Colorado Junior Miss.
The Denver PostIn a May 5, 1977 photograph, Denver Post pressmen are shown sitting outside the newspaper building.
Lyn Alweis, The Denver PostThe Denver Post is sold on the streets in 1978.
The Denver PostPhotographers Ernie Lebya, left, won first place and an honorable mention and John Sunderland, right, won second after a photo contest on Feb. 24, 1978.
Lyn Alweis, The Denver PostThe Denver Post pressroom changes over in 1980.
The Denver PostA businessman glances at the Monday morning edition, a recently launched venture, of The Denver Post on Sept. 14, 1981. The inaugural edition of the morning Denver Post was published on this day, marking the beginning of what its publishers called "a new newspaper era in the Rocky Mountain Region."
Anthony Suau, The Denver PostThe last afternoon Post rolls off the Presses in 1982.
The Denver PostTheir 1985 series of articles titled "The Truth About Missing Children" revealed that widely accepted figures on the number of children abducted by strangers were greatly exaggerated. Louis Kilzer and Diana Griego were the lead reporters, Tom Patterson was the metro editor at the time. The newsroom celebrates on April 18, 1986.
The Denver PostIn a February 1989 photograph, Denver Post employees hold a union rally outside The Denver Post building demanding jobs for justice.
The Denver PostStaffers at The Denver Post are overcome with emotion upon hearing the newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for the Columbine tragedy. Pictured from left are Patricia Callahan, a reporter on the story, Michelle P. Fulcher, national editor who directed reporters on the story, and assistant managing editor/news Frank Scandale, who supervised the newsroom during the story.
The Denver PostDean Singleton, CEO of ap Inc., stood on the top of a desk in the second-floor of The Denver Post newsroom to talk to employees about the joint operating agreement between the two Denver daily newspapers.
Glenn Asakawa, The Denver PostIn an Oct. 4, 2001 photograph, William Dean Singleton, publisher of The Denver Post and chairman of the Denver Newspaper Agency, works in his office on the 21st floor of the Denver Post building.
Jerry Cleveland, The Denver PostNew Denver Post Editor Greg Moore talks to the news staff during a meeting in The Denver Post newsroom after he was introduced by publisher William Dean Singleton.
Reza A. Marvashti, The Denver PostThe Denver Post's Craig F. Walker celebrates winning the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on April 12, 2010.
Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver PostWilliam Dean Singleton, chairman and publisher, left, and Gregory L. Moore, editor, center, congratulate Mike Keefe in the newsroom April 18, 2011. Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons. Keefe's entry was a portfolio of 20 editorial cartoons. The judges cited him for his range of his work and a cartooning style that employs a "loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages."
Joe Amon, The Denver PostCraig F. Walker, right, of The Denver Post and former United States Marine Scott Ostrom, the subject of his 2012 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography depicting his struggle with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Daniel Petty, The Denver PostColumbia University President Lee Bollinger, left, stands with Denver Post staff journalists awarded the breaking news Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting at Columbia University on May 30, 2013, in New York. From left, Bollinger; Lee Ann Colacioppo, senior editor for news; Kurtis Lee, politics and breaking news reporter; RJ Sangosti, photographer; Tim Rasmussen, assistant managing editor for photography; and Kevin Dale, news director.
Andy Cross, The Denver PostDenver Post director of innovation Eric Lubbers in the newsroom Sept. 13, 2016.
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As we prepare to celebrate our 125th anniversary, we thought we’d take a trip through the archives. What awaited us was a lesson in Colorado history and the part we’ve played in sharing it with you over the years.
Thousands of people gathered in the streets outside our building to hear sporting events broadcast over loud speakers. Dignitaries climbed aboard a steam locomotive destined for Cheyenne Frontier Days, a tradition that continues to this day. Famous people traveled to Denver, making a point to be seen with the editor. In 1931, Amelia Earhart stood next to Post owner and editor Frederick G. Bonfils at what was then known as Denver Municipal Airport.
Our carriers have always been a most critical link in the getting the paper to you. We found one intrepid child braving snow almost as deep as his bike tires to toss the paper. The carriers were recognized by Gov. Daniel I.J. Thornton when he proclaimed Oct. 2, 1954 as Newspaper Boy Day in Colorado.
We seem to have let an elephant into the building at one point.
There were pin-up girls on the wall of an office. There were roll top desks and typewriters and pressman’s hats and something known as The Denver Post Mid-Summer Frolic.
Much has changed. Today, The Post has evolved into a multimedia news source, providing stories, photographs and video around the world through denverpost.com. Needless to say, the staff is a lot more diverse than what we see in these old photographs.
Much has stayed the same. Throughout the photos you will see proud Denver Post staffers accepting the biggest awards this industry has to offer. Then as now, you can find our staff hunkered over desks and out in the field. Then as now we have some fun at work. And, forgive our sentimentality on our 125th anniversary, then as now you will find us absolutely committed to being the trusted voice of The Rocky Mountain Empire.