Henry Minn, watchmaker, clockmaker and amateur photographer, at his workbench in the 1890s
Oxfordshire History Centre blog
The Minn and Buckler topographical image collections
8 April 2022
In this blog post, guest writers and Oxfordshire History Centre volunteers, Malcolm Graham and Colin Harris, explore the fascinating topographical image collections of Henry Minn, and of father and son, John Buckler and John Chessell Buckler.
Portrait of John Buckler, by John Outrim, after Sir William John Newton. Stipple engraving, published 1850 (1847).
Image: © National Portrait Gallery, London (ref: NPG D32313), and re-used here under Creative Commons Licence.
The original collections of Minn photographs and Buckler drawings are held by the Bodleian Library, and copy photographs of both collections were supplied to Oxfordshire History Centre some years ago. With the Bodleian's permission, and with generous funding from the Oxfordshire Family History Society, Oxfordshire History Centre's copy photographs have now been digitised and are available online for the first time on Picture Oxon.
- Read the story of the Minn collection: Henry Minn's Oxford.
- Read the story of the Buckler collection: Exploring city and county 200 years ago.
Posted by: Mark Lawrence, History Centre Manager (Local Studies)