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Creator	Buttre, J(ohn) C(hester), 1821-1893
Title	John Pope
Alternate Title	Portrait of Colonel John Pope
Publisher	London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co.
Date	1853-1854
Genre	Engravings
Material/Technique	Image taken from daguerreotype
Description	This portrait engraving accompanied a profile in: John Livingston, <em>Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living: With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions </em>, II. The page also includes a facsimile signature.
Historical note	Colonel John Pope (1794-1865), a prominent Memphis Cotton grower, received a medal for his cotton in 1851 at London's Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, now known as the "Crystal Palace" exposition. He had studied law at Yale University and served in the Alabama state legislature before settling in Tennessee. Pope, who was one of the founders of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Bolivar, Tennessee, in 1834, developed some 900 acres of southwestern Tennessee land in the vicinity of Memphis. An innovator and pioneer in the science of farming, he is credited with helping develop short staple cotton as a commodity.
Theme	Taking Care of Business
Story	John Pope
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Memphis
Time period	1850-1859
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Vanderbilt University Libraries
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades14/shades_van_0014.tif