Ray Jerome Baker (December 1, 1880 – October, 1972) was an American photographer, film maker and lecturer.

[2] He met Edith Frost, a local school teacher, at a Socialist meeting in Eureka in 1906; they married shortly thereafter.

When lecturing,[4] Baker used hand-painted lantern slides to dramatize his presentations; he made larger hand-colored glass plates backlit with daylight when exhibited.

His photographs appeared in mainstream media, including The National Geographic Magazine,[5] Baker wrote a memoir in 1964, titled Odyssey of a Cameraman.

[6] Ray Jerome Baker died in Honolulu on Friday, October 27, 1972, a funeral was held over his ashes.