The Anthoensen Press was an American publishing company based in Portland, Maine, in operation between 1875 and 1987.

[1][6] In 1884, a two-year-old, German-born Frederick Wilhelm Anthoensen (1882–1969) emigrated to the United States with his parents, Peter and Betta, from Tønder Municipality, South Jutland, Denmark.

[7] While in the Portland schools system, he gained an interest in printing via the works of two Boston printers — Daniel Berkeley Updike and Bruce Rogers.

[7] Anthoensen broadened the scope of the company's customers beyond the local area, beginning with the Pratt Institute Free Library.

This led to his possessing the country's largest collection of "rare borders, flowers, and other typographical ornaments" from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

[9] The company kept its name beyond the death of Anthoensen, starting with its takeover by Warren F. Skillings,[10] firstly, then Harry Milliken.

[11] In 1983, under Thomas, the company modernized with the introduction of computerized typesetting, to run alongside the traditional linotype and letterpress machines.