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This photograph depicts the wolf named Pancho Villa at Dr. McCleery’s lobo wolf park. This photograph was featured in the Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA) on February 21, 1932 which also attributed the photograph to A. A. Nicolas and identified the wolf as Pancho Villa, a Mexican wolf.

This…
Date: Between 1921 and 1932

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This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery in a pen with one of his wolves at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. (I think this wolf looks like Jerry, judging by another labeled photo of Jerry.) This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R. Jones and…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

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This photograph depicts Robert B. Jones, then-superintendent at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, petting a wolf in the pens at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R. Jones and is captioned "Pa Jones + His…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

This excerpt describes two visits by the authors to Dr. McCleery's wolf park, probably in the 1940s.
Date: 1950

Many companies offered their appreciation for and well-wishes to Dr. E. H. McCleery and Jack Lynch in this special edition of the Kane Republican. This advertisement by Nellie and Lyle Fay of the Kane Greenhouses commends Dr. McCleery for keeping Kane in the news and for contributing to the…
Date: February 20, 1962

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This color linen postcard depicts four wolves in pens at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. The caption on the front of the card reads "Only Lobo Wolves in the World, on Roosevelt Highway between Mt. Jewett and Kane, Pa." The caption on the back of the…
Date: Between 1929 and 1938

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This photograph depicts five wolves (one of which was sold to Lord Auckland in 1923) at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. A structure which looks like a doghouse is visible in a neighboring pen. I believe this photo was taken by A. A. Nicolas due to the…
Date: Photographed between 1921 and 1923. Published as a postcard between 1929 and 1949

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This photograph depicts two wolves in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R. Jones and is captioned "One of the wolf dens."

The photo album of Margaret R. Jones includes two notes. One…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch with a wolf at Jack Lynch's "Loboland USA" buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA.
Date: June 18, 1972

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This photograph depicts seven wolves at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. Birthing dens are visible. I believe this photo was taken by A. A. Nicolas due to the caption style and handwritten copyright symbol. This photograph was included in the 1929 Hurri-Kane…
Date: Between 1921 and 1929

This excerpt describes Raven Bear (a member of the Crow Nation) and his grandson's visit to the wolf park on the Olympic peninsula, where the remnants of the Great Plains wolf "Canis lupus nubilus" were said to be kept. Raven Bear says that the wolves were in small pens and looked like they were…
Date: 1978

One of these photos features several wolf pups, and the other photo features Dr. E. H. McCleery with several of the pups. The caption briefly describes how wolves raise their pups and the dangers the pups face from the time they are born.

An excerpt from the caption is quoted below.
Date: February 20, 1962

This article includes a photo of a young coyote who was captured, offered to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and refused. He is currently looking for a home. Partial text of the article is quoted below.
Date: July 16, 1931

This article reports that Jack and Marjorie Lynch, the young and enthusiastic new owners of the wolf park, plan to keep the wolves at their present location and will continue using the "McCleery Wolf Farm" name. They believe the wolves would have done well as an attraction back in Wisconsin, and…
Date: February 20, 1962

This article reports that Dr. E. H. McCleery has completed transportation of his wolves and that the new park on Route 6 is now occupied by the entire pack of 72 wolves. Seventeen wolf pups remain at the stone house at the West Side Park where they are being tamed.

Construction of the park is…
Date: May 11, 1929

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This photograph depicts a mountain lion in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA.
Date: 1953

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This photograph depicts a mountain lion in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA.
Date: 1947

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This photograph depicts a mountain lion in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA.
Date: 1947

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This photograph depicts a mountain lion in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA.
Date: 1947

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This photograph depicts a mountain lion in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA.
Date: 1947