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CREDITS
This project was supported by a cooperative agreement between the National Agricultural Library and the University of Maryland Libraries.
We would like to extend our thanks to the staff of the Riversdale Mansion, particularly Ed Day and Jill St. John for their assistance. Margaret Law Callcott's edition of Rosalie Calvert's letters, Mistress of Riversdale, proved indispensable during our research. We also appreciated her meeting with us at Riversdale to discuss her work. The staff of the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the University of Maryland Libraries offered valuable creative input and editorial comments.
CONTRIBUTORS
Jennifer Evans
After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2001 with master's degrees in history and library science, Jennifer Evans worked as a project archivist at the University of Maryland Libraries. In March 2004, Jennifer started employment at the National Archives in the Nixon Presidential Materials. While at the university, she worked on three major projects: creating and populating a database to track administrative and descriptive data about the Archives and Manuscripts Department's photographic holdings; processing and/or appraising agriculture-related collections; and the Riversdale Bookshelf. Her research interests are varied and include online exhibitions, web design, electronic access to archival materials, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American women and gender.
Ann M. Hanlon
Ann earned an M.S. from the College of Library and Information Studies at the University of Illinois. While pursuing an M.A. in American history, Ann worked as a graduate assistant in the Marylandia and Rare Books Department of the University of Maryland Libraries, where she assisted with copy editing and web design for the Riversdale Bookshelf. Ann began work as a project archivist at the University of Maryland Libraries in 2004.
Jill F. Reilly
Jill F. Reilly worked as a graduate student assistant in the University of Maryland Libraries Archives and Manuscripts Department. Her position was funded through the Libraries' cooperative agreement with the National Agricultural Library. She processed and appraised archival and manuscript collections related to agriculture in Maryland. She also assisted Jennifer Evans with the photographic database project. For the Riversdale Bookshelf, Jill researched women's reading habits and the history of gardening and landscaping during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In May 2004, she graduated from the University of Maryland with a Masters of Arts in history and a Masters in Library Science. In June 2004, Jill began working as an archives specialist at the National Archives with the Archival Research Catalog.
IMAGES
Several pages on the Riversdale Bookshelf website are illustrated with images of the Riversdale Mansion. The full color photographs of Riversdale Mansion and the library at Riversdale, taken by photographer Steve Abramowitz, appear courtesy of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission. A photograph of Riversdale Mansion, taken in May 1936 by photographer John Brostrup, is part of the Historic American Building Survey. More photographs from that project can be found on the Library of Congress's online exhibit "Built in America." Photographs of the Riversdale Mansion grounds and a detail of the mansion were taken from a 1931 paper written by Edgar Swick for Phi Mu, an engineering honor society, and appear courtesy of the University of Maryland, Special Collections. An etching depicting Riversdale Mansion and its grounds in 1827 appears courtesy of the Huntington Library. A print depicting the Riversdale grounds and Charles Benedict Calvert's Durham cow, Cinderella, first appeared in the periodical the American Farmer in July 1845.
