Anthoensen Press (Corporate Name)

The Caribbean poetry of Derek Walcott ... 1983: colophon (The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine)

NUCMC data from Maine Historical Society for Southworth-Anthoensen Press newspaper transcription, 1988 (Anthoensen Press; founded in 1875 as the Southworth Press by Rev. Francis Southworth. Fred Anthoensen, hired in 1901 as compositor was, by 1917, the press's managing director. In 1934 the firm became the Southworth-Anthoensen Press and in 1944, the Anthoensen Press until its closure in 1987. When the Southworth Press broke up in the early 1930s the electrotyping foundry was reorganized as Walter J. Meserve Inc. until about 1932 and operated by Walter Meserve until his death in 1952)