1904 Louis Bramson, Stern's Father, opens the Royal Photo Company in Louisville, Kentucky. He marries Bessie Stern this same year.
1912 Stern Bramson born.
1930 Graduates from high school and joins his parents in the family business.
1935 Starts showing bulldogs; which becomes a life long hobby.
1944 Joins the U.S. Army. Works as a photography instructor for nine months at the Signal Corps Training Center in Astoria, New York.
1945 Works as a Army photographer and instructor in Germany and England.
1946 Discharged. Returns to the family business.
1954 50th Anniversary of the Royal Photo Company.
1963 Louis Bramson dies. Stern Bramson takes over the business.
1973 When the Royal Photo Company offices and studio are to be demolished for an urban renewal project Stern Bramson sells the Company, including all negatives.
1982 The negatives are donated to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
1984 Royal Photo Company exhibition is held at the University of Louisville. Bramson's photographs are shown primarily for their historic significance.
1987 Ivan Karp, owner of O.K. Harris Gallery in New York learns of Bramson's work from photo-realist painter John Baeder and mounts Bramson's first commercial gallery exhibition.
1988 Exhibitions are held in San Francisco (Fraenkel Gallery) for a second time at the University of Louisville and at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
1989 Stern Bramson dies at the age of seventy-seven. Exhibitions are held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.
1991 Show at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery.
1. "NCR Employees Party" - 1953
16" x 20"
$850.00
2. "Bruised Face" - 1963
24" x 20"
$1,500.00
3. "Buildings at 620 - 624 South 4th Street" - Jan. 22, 1946
16" x 20"
$850.00
4. "Unloading Christmas Trees" - Dec. 4, 1951
16" x 20"
$850.00
5. "Victor Mature at Opening for One Million B.C. Loew's Theatre" - April 4, 1940
16" x 20"
$1,000.00
6. "St. Bernard Coal Company Truck Wrecked at First National Bank" - May, 1942
16" x 20"
$850.00
7. "Is this your Boy?" - Dec. 14, 1938
11" x 14"
$600.00
8. "Four Generations" - 1960
16" x 20"
$1,000.00
9. "New Banners on the Midway" - Feb.17,1962
20 x 24 (also available in 16 x 20)
$1,500.00
10. "Blindfolded Girl and Plymouth" - June 19, 1956
16" x 20"
$1,000.00
11. "Cosmetics Counter and elevator promotion" - no date
11" x 14"
12. "Kentucky Elks Association Quartet" - Dec. 17, 1945 $600.00
11" x 14"
$600.00
13. "Goodman's News Store" - June 18, 1942
11" x 14" (also available in 20 x 24)
$600.00
14. "Tile Bathroom" - Nov. 6, 1941
11" x 14"
$600.00
15. "Gun and Holster Display, S.S. Kresge" - Feb. 17, 1944
16" x 20"
$850.00
16. "Reinactment of accident"
16" x 20"
$850.00
17. "Window Display, Selman's" - May 24, 1946
11" x 14"
$600.00
18. "Home for the Elderly Little Sisters of the Poor
Good Mother" - Feb. 17, 1959
16" x 20"
$850.00
19. "Pointing To Spot" - Sept. 28, 1967
11" x 14"
$600.00
20. "Security Guards" - 1942
20" x 24"
$1,200.00
21. "Baron Lavelle (Lawrence Jones) in his home studio" - February 17, 1962
16" x 20"
$1,500.00
22. "Models and Blank Screen" - Aug. 20,1946
16" x 20"
$1,000.00
All Photographs taken in Louisville, Kentucky
Prices do not include matting or framing.