Skipper in the Mercantile Marine, 1898 (chromolithograph on paper)

Sheet music cover for The Skipper in the Mercantile Marine, written by Edgar Bateman composed by E. Jonghmanns, Sung by Tom Costello. Illustrated by Harry Generes Banks (1862 - c1940) lithographer. Published by Francis, Day & Hunter, 142 Charing Cross Road, (Oxford Street End) London, Publishers of Smallwood's Celebrated Pianoforte Tutor Smallwood's 55 Melodious Exercises, etc. New York; T. B. Harms & Co. 18 East 22nd Street, Copyright MDCCCXCVIII in the United States of America, by Francis, Day & Hunter. Francis, Day & Hunter is a British music publishing company, one of the leading publishers of music hall songs and popular music in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It was established in London in 1877 as W. & J. Francis and Day, later Francis Brothers & Day, becoming Francis, Day & Hunter in 1880. It became a subsidiary of EMI Publishing in 1972.