Talk:Nashville Banner
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I'm not going to alter the entry because I don't have time at the moment to double-check facts, but I recall that the modern Nashville Banner was called just that from the outset in 1876. There was a Nashville Republican Banner earlier in the 1800s, and possibly more than one title by that name at different times under different owners. In NRB issues from the 1830s, I have seen the rampant-eagle masthead device that continued to appear in the Banner as recently as the 1970s (and was reproduced in miniature on the final front page, 20 Feb. 1998 -- whose lead photo of the Banner staff featured my wife Nicki and our 3-week-old Eloise at front and center, I must note with familial pride). But to my knowledge, the proprietors of the 1876 start-up had no relationship to those of the earlier Banner(s). -- Tom Wood
- The relationship between the Republican Banner and the Nashville Banner is a bit mysterious. By most accounts, the Nashville Banner sprang forth independantly in 1876, but there are a few strange facts which seem to indicate a connection to the earlier Banner:
- The Republican Banner ceased publication in 1875 (merging with the Union And American to form The American) and the Nashville Banner started publication in 1876 (less than a year later).
- In the Nashville Banner Room in the Downtown library there is a framed copy of the Republican Banner.
- The mastheads of the two papers are virtually identical.
- Perhaps this requires a bit more research. Kaldari 01:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
