History of the Press

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Founded in 1905 by ¿ìɫֱ²¥ alumnus Whitney Darrow, ¿ìɫֱ²¥ had its start as ¿ìɫֱ²¥ Alumni Press, a small printing operation serving the University, publishing the ¿ìɫֱ²¥ Alumni Weekly in a rented office above a drugstore on Nassau Street in ¿ìɫֱ²¥, New Jersey. With the financial support of another ¿ìɫֱ²¥ian, Charles Scribner II of the New York publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons, the Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910 and gradually developed into a full-fledged book publisher.

We honor the Lenni-Lenape, the first inhabitants of the New Jersey lands on which the ¿ìɫֱ²¥ building now stands.

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