Family Paper and Publications

This subseries contains personal and business papers of family individuals, including Thomas Wells Robinson (1803-1869) the purchaser of Potomac Landing, correspondence, one broadside, a family scrapbook, and general ephemera. This Subseries includes a family scrapbook, a scrapbook created by Lucy Robinson Arth (1876-1958), daughter of Robert H. and Amanda B. Robinson, and a scrapbook created by Mary Robinson Conner (1930-2009), daughter of Frank A. and Elizabeth B. Robinson. This series includes mercantile ephemera and store broadsides. This series includes a merchant memorandum book Black Walnut Thicket the plantation of the Baden family in Baden, Prince George's County, Maryland. This series also includes a copy of "Hail! Prince George's" the Prince George's County song written in 1939 (Box 38, folder 3). This series includes a music study book, Standard Graded Courses of Studies for the Piano Forte, Grade III (1892) owned by Louise Robertson, a family cousin that lived at Holly Grove, the farm next door to the Robinsons. This series includes a full run of correspondence course practical nursing lessons from the Chicago School of Nursing with the accompanying exams, ephemera, and lesson binders used by Mary Robinson Conner.