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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones in a toy car in front of the Jones' house in Kane, PA. The pens of Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park are visible in the distance. This photograph is included in the photo album of Ruth A. Jones.

This photograph was probably taken between 1921 (when Dr. McCleery…
Date: Probably between 1921 and 1925

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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones standing in front 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. This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R. Jones.

The photo album of…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones in front of the fence of Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. One wolf is standing on its hind legs with its front paws against the fence, and three other wolves are visible in neighboring pens. The year 1920 is written…
Date: Between 1921 and 1929

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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones and her future husband Ed Anderson standing in the snow by the fence at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. The man is holding a cigarette. This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R. Jones.

The photo…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones and her future husband Ed Anderson by a car, with a telephone pole in the background. This photograph is included in the photo album of Ruth A. Jones.
Date: 1924

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This photograph depicts Margaret Jones, wife of Robert B. Jones, and mother of Earl C. Jones. Ruth Heeter, daughter of Margaret Jones, and granddaughter of Robert B. Jones and Margaret Jones (senior), identified the woman in this photo as her grandmother Margaret Jones.
Date: 1917

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This photograph depicts a man with a cigarette in his mouth holding a dead wolf (one of the wolves from Dr. McCleery's wolf park between Gap and Coatesville, Pennsylvania after its closure), with a bottle of whiskey and a gun propped up against the wolf.
Date: 1931

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This photograph depicts a man with a dead wolf (one of the wolves from Dr. McCleery's wolf park between Gap and Coatesville, Pennsylvania after its closure) slung over his shoulders. The man's hat is on the ground.
Date: 1931

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This photograph depicts an unidentified man and woman outside a brick building. It is not necessarily relevant to Dr. McCleery's wolf park, but was scanned alongside other images. This photograph is included in the photo album of Ruth A. Jones.
Date: Probably the early 1920s

The "Travel" section of this article describes the "Lobo Wolf Park" and its collection of various types of wolves, business hours, feeding times, and admission prices.
Date: April 1970

This article reports that Jack Lynch (age 57) and Mary Wheeler (age 52) are moving the wolves in their care to a 160-acre lot which they have recently purchased in the Gallatin Range, Montana. One of Lynch's reasons for the move is that Montana is the wolves' natural range and they will lose…
Date: October 19, 1980

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This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery carrying a wolf 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 "Loving friends."

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

This article reports that Kane Mayor Edgar James has commented on Jack Lynch's plans to move the lobo wolves to the west coast. Though plans to move the wolves have been reported almost since Lynch bought the park from Dr. McCleery, James regrets that it is happening and describes the necessity of…
Date: January 18, 1972

This article reports that Jack Lynch is moving the wolves to a location near the Olympic National Park in Washingtonian. About 20 of the wolves have been air-lifted to the new location, and Jack is tranquilizing the remaining 31 wolves (including pregnant females) to prepare them for shipment via…
Date: February 15, 1972

This poem was inspired by Lobo Land in Gardiner, WA and incorporates a description of the wolves as the author perceived them.
Date: 1977

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This photograph depicts the large wolf-shaped sign that reads "LOBO WOLVES" which stood at the entrance to the lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA.
Date: August 1968

This article details the characteristics and behaviors of Dr. E. H. McCleery’s lobo wolves and how they differ from timber wolves. The leaflet written by Dr. McCleery is quoted. When the article was written, Dr. McCleery had 39 lobo wolves, and attacks by them had sent him to the hospital three…
Date: September 5, 1948

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This baseball glove was used in the 1930s by the Lobo Wolves baseball team in Kane, PA. There is a drawing of a wolf on the back of the glove. The team had a ball field behind the railroad trestle (bridge) on the left side of Route 6 just past the wolf park. The property was owned by Bill Belitkus…
Date: The 1930s

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This photograph depicts two wolves in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. This is a postcard. The caption on the back of the card reads, "LOBO WOLVES at Wolfe Park, 6 miles east of Kane, Pennsylvania on U. S. Rt. 6 in the "Seneca Highlands".…
Date: Probably between 1949 and 1956

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This photograph depicts two white wolves in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. This is a postcard. The caption on the back of the card reads, "LOBO WOLVES at Wolfe Park, 6 miles east of Kane, Pennsylvania on U. S. Rt. 6 in the "Seneca…
Date: Between 1949 and 1956