Royal Photo Company Royal Photo Company Louis Bramson established the Royal Photo View Company in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1904. In 1908, the company was renamed the Royal Photo Company. The Royal Photo Company focused on commercial photography and, unlike many other photographic businesses, did not operate a studio for portraits. Clients included Hillerich & Bradsby—makers of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat—and other businesses such as Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and the Kaufman-Straus department store. Stern Bramson (1912–1989), the son of Louis Bramson, joined the studio upon graduation from DuPont Manual High School in 1930 and remained
Louisville Herald-Post Louisville Herald-Post The Louisville Herald-Post was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. "The Herald-Post" was created in 1925 from the merging of the old "Louisville Herald" and "Louisville Post" newspapers. Louisville financier James Buckner Brown sought to operate the paper as a counter to the positions of the Bingham newspapers the "Louisville Times" and the "Courier-Journal". The "Louisville Post"'s former editor Lewis Craig Humphrey became associate editor of the "Louisville Herald-Post". Brown invested nearly five million dollars in the combined newspapers. Brown lost his fortune in 1930 when his bank holding company BancoKentucky failed. After the BancoKentucky's failure,