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Frederick Baker's gravestone

East Melbourne

  • 132 Gipps Street
Image
Melbourne Yarra Leader, 25 October 2004, p.7 Open full image ↗
Acquisition number
1294
Catalogue number
emdf0188
File name
DF0188
File location
Digital archive

Newspaper clipping about tours of the Melbourne General Cemetery run by the National Trust of Victoria's senior historian, Celestina Sagazio. One of the graves mentioned and shown in a photograph is that of Frederick Baker, the opera singer known as Federici, and best known as the ghost who is said to haunt the Princess Theatre. Baker was living at 132 Gipps Street, East Melbourne in 1888 when he died.

Item type
Newsclipping
Building name
Nepean Terrace
Subject address
132 Gipps Street, East Melbourne
Author
Claire Turfrey
Date of publication or creation
2004-10-25
Publisher
The Melbourne Yarra Leader
Date digitised
2016-04-18

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