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A memory submitted by Dr. Jack Thornton, a retired veterinarian and former owner of Blue Mountain Animal Clinic in Port Angeles, WA regarding his experiences volunteering his veterinary services for Jack Lynch in Gardiner, WA. The initial interview was conducted by Kirsten Canfield over the phone.…
Date: March 4, 2014

A memory submitted by Elliott Dushkin about his and his wife's (Carolyn Dushkin's) correspondence with Jack and Mary Lynch over the course of several years, starting in the late 1980s.
Date: September 29, 2015

A memory submitted by Donna Close Murray regarding her visit to the wolf park in the 1950s and her writing of a screenplay called "The Doctor's Wolves."
Date: March 22, 2014

A memory submitted by Carolyn (Myers) Kraintz regarding her visit to the lobo wolves.
Date: February 14, 2014

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This color linen postcard is a colored version of a photograph which depicts a wolf lying down at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park. The background of the original photograph was cut out and replaced with an illustration of trees. The caption on the front of the card reads "McCleery's Lobo and White…
Date: The original photo was taken between 1921 and 1929. The colored version was made between 1921 and 1962.

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This photograph depicts a wolf lying down at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. This is a postcard. The caption on the front of the card reads, "McCleery's Lobo and White Arctic Wolves - Kane, Pennsylvania." The back of the card reads, "Genuine Photo by…
Date: Between 1921 and 1929

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This photograph depicts a wolf howling at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. This is a postcard. The caption on the front of the card reads, "McCleery's Lobo and White Arctic Wolves - Kane, Pennsylvania." The back of the card reads, "Genuine Photo by Garraway…
Date: Between 1921 and 1929

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This photograph depicts a man who looks like Earl Jones (but I am not certain) with four wolves at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park. This is a postcard. The caption on the front of the card reads, "McCleery's Lobo and White Arctic Wolves - Kane, Pennsylvania."

This postcard was published between…
Date: Between 1921 and 1962

This article reports that the Kinogram Moving Picture company filmed Dr. McCleery's wolves at the Coatesville park, and the film will be released in a few days. Film of Dr. McCleery's wolves was also taken several years ago and was shown in several large U.S. and foreign cities. Partial text of the…
Date: March 13, 1931

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The 1940 Census describes the McCleery household at 3 Park Avenue South in Kane, PA - a house which the family owns and where they have been living since at least April 1, 1935.

Edward H. McCleery, head of the household, is described as a white 72-year-old male who works as a physician at a…
Date: April 11, 1940

The 1880 Census describes the McCleery household as it was when Dr. E. H. McCleery was a 12-year-old boy. John P. McCleery, head of the household, is described as a white 43-year-old male and a lawyer. His wife, Mary H. McCleery, is described as a white 35-year-old female and homemaker. Their…
Date: June 8 and 9, 1880

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The McCleery family plot includes the graves of Edward H. McCleery, M.D. (1867-1962) and two of his children - Mary Jane McCleery (1915-1922) and John McCleery (listed on the gravestone as Baby McCleery) (1918).
Date: 1918, 1922, and 1962

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This photograph depicts Mary Wheeler holding a wolf pup at Jack Lynch's buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA. The wolf-shaped sign at the entrance of the park is visible in the distance.
Date: Between 1977 and 1979

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This photograph depicts Mary Wheeler with a wolf pup at Jack Lynch's buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA. The wolf-shaped sign at the entrance of the park is visible in the distance.
Date: Between 1977 and 1979

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This photograph depicts Claude Mollander Jr. and (I believe) his sister Marjorie Mollander holding their dead pet dog. The dog was killed in February 1946 by a mountain lion which escaped from Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. This photograph is…
Date: February 1946

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This photograph depicts a woman (presumably Marjorie Lynch) riding a sled pulled by a team of six sled dogs. The back of the photo is labeled "Dog Sled."
Date: Probably 1962

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This photograph depicts Marjorie and Jack Lynch at Jack Lynch's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. A sign reading "Alaskan Timber Wolf" hangs on the fence of the pen behind them, and Jack Lynch is looking into the pen. Two wolves are visible.

Text on the back of…
Date: February 1962

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This photograph depicts Marjorie and Jack Lynch sitting on the railing at Jack Lynch's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. A sign with the number four hangs on the fence of the pen behind them.

Text on the back of this photograph attributes it to the Kane Republican…
Date: February 1962

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This photograph depicts Marjorie "Margie" Lynch feeding the year-old wolves at Jack Lynch's "Loboland USA" buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA.
Date: October 29, 1978

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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones (wife of Robert B. Jones) with an unidentified boy and a dog on the front porch of the Jones' house in Kane, PA. The pens of Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, are visible in the distance, as well as three people walking…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924