Robinson, Elizabeth Bourne

This subseries contains material and ephemera of Elizabeth Bourne Robinson (1892-1976). She was the daughter of Joseph Blake Bourne and Maria Gantt of Calvert County, Maryland and the wife of Frank A. Robinson. This subseries consists of personal and business papers, correspondence, farm diaries for Ferndale Farm (1951-1960), recipe books (1872-1929), and embroidery patterns, and her funeral ephemera and register. There are a number of product cookbooks and Department of Agriculture publications. Correspondence includes letters from her sister Grace Bourne Howes (1889-1976). There is sheet music 1873-1927, undated, including popular song titles such as Silver Threads Among the Gold (1873), Where the River Shannon Flows (1905), and Are You Lonesome Tonight (1927) as well as studio pieces most likely used while she was learning piano. The older pieces of music most likely belonged to her mother, Maria Gantt Bourne. Other objects include her mother's cookbook and music folio. There is a recorded oral history with Elizabeth done in 1971 including a written transcript.