PEARL PRESSMAN LIBERTY COMMUNICATIONS GROUP — REMAKING HISTORY

It all started in 1906, when two teenagers, working in a Philadelphia print shop, decided to go out on their own. The sons of Russian and Latvian immigrants, Manuel Pearl and Charles Pressman scraped together $60 and purchased a foot-powered press, assorted type and some paper.

They worked out of Pressman’s bedroom in the Jeweler’s Row area of the city. On the block, there were six other printers, along with 14 jewelers, engravers, watchmakers and metal refiners. But they soon outgrew the bedroom and, by 1920, had moved twice, settling into a 5,000-square-foot space.