# Talk:Edward A. Hanna

I think the two photos recently added to this article might be of other people named Edward A. Hanna. Compared to what comes up on a Google Image search for "ed hanna utica", they don't really resemble each other. @ThatRandomGuy1: how did you obtain these photos? Apocheir (talk) 21:35, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Local newspapers, one published in New York State and another in Pennsylvania, available on Newspapers.com. The subject of the 1975 photo is directly described as "Edward A. Hanna, the combative mayor of Utica, whose unorthodox style has outraged the city's establishment for more than a year..." etc. He's definitely the same guy. The subject of the 1969 photo is a bit more vague. He was a teacher at Allen High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania and an "active worker for the local for many months" who was elected president of a teaching union. Because of this, I automatically connected him with the politician, since in my country (the UK) a lot of historical politicians were also trade unionists or had links to the trade union movement, especially populists, and because Pennsylvania borders New York I didn't think it was too much of a stretch to suggest that he was the same guy who simply moved to Pennsylvania for a short time, especially with the unique-ish name. I dismissed the lack of resemblance for the 1969 photo as down to age and the lesser quality of newspaper clippings (most photos of Hanna online are of him at a much older age where it was possible for him to have gained weight and receded etc). Looking back on it now, that was a reckless move, but we can simply change the description of the Commons file and remove it from the article if the man in the 1969 photo wasn't the politician since they shared the same name.
Now that you point it out, the man in the 1969 photo does seem quite more different than I had initially thought. Perhaps someone could search for a photo of Utica's Edward A. Hanna from that year or earlier to see if he looked like that at the time? Don't worry about the 1975 photo though, that's definitely him following the context of the newspaper article. ThatRandomGuy1 (talk) 11:29, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
The Ed Hanna this article is about has no connections to Allentown, PA of and was never a teacher (he didn't even graduate high school), so I'm certain that the 1969 photo is someone else.
It would be helpful to add a link to the newspapers.com source in the image summaries, even if it is paywalled. Apocheir (talk) 20:23, 17 June 2023 (UTC)