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Cover features: title and composition information with decorative embellishments (black on uncoloured ground).

Boys of the Navy

Date1918
Names
(performer)
FormatEphemera
Notes
For voice and piano.
Key: G major.
On front cover: "Sung by Frank Oldfield, Marley Sherris, and others". 
Subject
    GeographyCountryGreat Britain
    Medium
    Sheet music
    Dimensions35 cm x 27 cm (13 3/4 in. x 10 5/8 in.)
    Language
      CollectionSpecial Collections in the Arts
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberCSM-SHUBOY1918-001
      The sea lads trusty companion : being instructions given to the lads and boys assembled at the Marine Society's office in Bishopsgate-Street; waiting 'till commission or warrant officers in the Royal Navy request them as servants, in order to their being bred seamen; also masters in the merchants service, enquiring for boys to serve them as apprentices at sea: comprhending rules of life with regard to moral and religious obligations. With a state of the Society to the 24th Nov. 1778 /cby J.H. Esq
      The sea lads trusty companion : being instructions given to the lads and boys assembled at the Marine Society's office in Bishopsgate-Street; waiting 'till commission or warrant officers in the Royal Navy request them as servants, in order to their being bred seamen; also masters in the merchants service, enquiring for boys to serve them as apprentices at sea: comprhending rules of life with regard to moral and religious obligations. With a state of the Society to the 24th Nov. 1778 /cby J.H. Esq
      Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786
      1778
      The sailor-boy : a poem in four cantos, illustrative of the navy of Great Britain
      The sailor-boy : a poem in four cantos, illustrative of the navy of Great Britain
      Clennell, Luke, 1781-1840
      1815
      Above left, designer Lorren Boy wears Bent Boys' Chinese silk Dagwood dress, right, Brenda Bent wears a man's white shirt, Bent Boys' printed pants and embroidered bolero from Courage My Love
      Above left, designer Lorren Boy wears Bent Boys' Chinese silk Dagwood dress, right, Brenda Bent wears a man's white shirt, Bent Boys' printed pants and embroidered bolero from Courage My Love
      Beaty, Keith
      7/5/1989
      Boys will be boys at any age, No matter what the age, it would appear there's nothing like a couple of lasses in bathing suits to make a fellow's day (...)
      Boys will be boys at any age, No matter what the age, it would appear there's nothing like a couple of lasses in bathing suits to make a fellow's day (...)
      McConnell, Colin
      7/20/1984
      Ontario holiday: Boys' and girls' camps, Boys from a camp near Burks Falls make a portage at Magnetawan on their canoe trip in the Almaguin Highlands
      Ontario holiday: Boys' and girls' camps, Boys from a camp near Burks Falls make a portage at Magnetawan on their canoe trip in the Almaguin Highlands
      Darrell, Dick
      5/24/1967
      Boys will be boys
      Boys will be boys
      Goode, Jeff
      11/17/1982
      Crossing famed Trafalgar Square in London are boys of the Appleby college boy's choir, Oakville, Ont
      Crossing famed Trafalgar Square in London are boys of the Appleby college boy's choir, Oakville, Ont
      Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022
      5/28/1953
      Annual report of the Committee of Management of the Boys' Home for the Training and Maintenance of Destitute Boys not Convicted of Crime
      Annual report of the Committee of Management of the Boys' Home for the Training and Maintenance of Destitute Boys not Convicted of Crime
      Blackburn's City Steam Press
      n.d.
      Green cloth book cover embossed with silhouette of adult reading book to two children
      Peter Parley's tales about boys : at home and abroad : The lost sea boys, Humility, The snake charmer, The young reformers, Self conduct, Sincerity, &c. &c.
      Martin, William, 1801-1867
      approximately 1850
      Photo of large room in a library with shelves of books lining the walls and tables and benches …
      New Boys and Girls Library at rear of Boys and Girls House, St. George Street, 1951
      Toronto Public Library
      1951
      Picture of boys and girls looking at books in a library.
      Boys and girls selecting books at Jones Avenue Boys and Girls Branch
      Toronto Public Library
      Approximately 1962
      Picture of boys and girls looking at books in a library.
      Boys reading books at Jones Avenue Boys and Girls Branch
      Toronto Public Library
      Approximately 1962