The Packer Collection includes images by Chipping Norton photographers Frank and Basil Packer, Percy Simms (another Chipping Norton photographer) and the Antona Studio.

Key Facts

• Size: 55,000 images
• Coverage: North and West Oxfordshire, the Cotswolds and the Vale of White Horse.
• Date range: about 1910-1970s

POX0159894 - Frank Packer in volunteer’s uniform, with his son Basil

Background

• Frank Packer (1876-1967) set up as a photographer in Chipping Norton in c. 1907 and his son, Basil, continued the business until the 1980s.
• Oxfordshire Museum Service bought the collection and related objects in 1984.