A professional photographer, Joseph Wellesh Baume, worked in Melbourne in 1860 before becoming an itinerant photographer and travelling around rural Victoria and New South Wales.
professional photographer, was working at 39 Swanston Street, Melbourne, in 1860, moving the following year to 8 Bourke Street where he remained until 1862. He exhibited Portrait of—Sargeant Esq. at the Victorian Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860. Later he became a travelling photographer in rural Victoria and south-western New South Wales, being recorded at Echuca, Deniliquin and Hay in 1868 and at Church Street and Scallen Street, Pleasant Creek (Victoria), on undated cartes-de-visite.
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