Solicitors of Wellington whose offices were destroyed by fire in the 1890s
Buckley & Company
Field album 19
Date: [1850s-1890s]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Hodgkins, William John Parker, 1866-1945
Reference: PA1-q-089
Description: Photographs of the Field and Hodgkins families, taken by William Hughes Field; and of New Zealand scenes. A number of views are of Dunedin taken between 1850 and 1868. Professional photographers include W J P Hodgkins, the Burton Brothers, F Finch and F A Coxhead. Individual views show scenes including a match played between the English cricket team vs Wellington, at the Basin Reserve, March 23-24, 1888; fire that destroyed the offices of Buckley & Co, a legal firm in Wellington, circa 1890s; views of a yachting party in Pelorus Sound; a house built of punga logs, circa 1858; various houses belonging to the Field and Hodgkins families, including Cranmore Lodge (Dunedin), and the Field house in Everton Terrace (Wellington). Also includes photographs of the Hodgkins' rented house in Ravensbourne. Inside the back cover is a black and white photographic copy of an illuminated address to Bishop Selwyn in farewell on his departure from New Zealand, with vignettes painted by Charles Decimus Barraud. Album signed `W Hughes Field, Terrace, Wellington, 1890-' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black covers, 30.0 x 25.5 cm
Papers relating to Hannah and Henry Augustus Field
Date: [1893-1899]
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: 73-128-193
Description: Correspondence, notes, legal material and other papers relating to business transactions of Hannah and Henry Augustus Field Language - Some documents in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Fire which destroyed the Buckley & Co office, Wellington city
Date: ca 1890s
From: Pharazyn, W N (Major) : W Hughes Field album
Reference: 1/2-048807-F
Description: Fire which destroyed the Buckley & Co (lawyers) office, Wellington city, circa 1890s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative