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Frederick Baker's gravestone

East Melbourne

  • 132 Gipps Street

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Acquisition number: 
1294
Catalogue number: 
emdf0188
File name: 
DF0188
File location: 
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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
Related content: 
Building history, 132 Gipps Street
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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