This photograph depicts two wolves - a lighter colored wolf in the foreground and a darker colored wolf in the distance - at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. A water bucket is visible hanging on the fence. A light-colored house with a dark-colored roof is…
This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery with one of his wolves - which is jumping and whose paw Dr. McCleery is holding - at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. Another wolf is visible in the background. This is a Defender postcard.
This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery with one of his wolves at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. Another wolf is visible in the background. This is a Defender postcard.
This photograph was taken between 1921 (when Dr. McCleery obtained his first wolf) and…
This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery kissing a wolf at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. Another wolf is visible in the background. The Kane Historic Preservation Society's version of this postcard is a Defender divided postcard. The caption on the front of…
This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery with two of his wolves - one of which is standing with its paws on Dr. McCleery's shoulders - at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. A birthing den is visible in the distance. This photograph is included in Dr. McCleery's…
This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery with one of his wolves with its paws on his shoulders, giving him a kiss, at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. This photograph is included in the February 1931 issue of the American Magazine where it is attributed to A. A.…
This photograph depicts Lady Silver, the wolf in the 1922 silent film "Brawn of the North." The 1926 Kane High School Yearbook (the Hurri-Kane) claimed that this wolf was from Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf pack, but she was probably never owned by Dr. McCleery; she was, however, related to some of the…
This photograph depicts Robert B. Jones, husband of Margaret Jones, father of Earl C. Jones, and the superintendent of Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park while it was located within the town limits of Kane, PA. He is holding a baby and a pipe, and is standing near what might have been an outside wall of…
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
This picture depicts Boreas, whom Dr. McCleery acquired in 1921. This photo was taken by the time the Hurri-Kane Yearbook was published in 1926, as it appears in the yearbook. I am making a guess that this photograph was taken by A. A. Nicolas based on the style.
This photograph depicts a wolf lying down in the snow at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located in Kane, PA. This photo was included in the 1926 Hurri-Kane Yearbook, dating it between 1921 and 1926.
I believe this picture depicts the first Achilles; Dr. McCleery was fond of the name, and also had wolves named Achilles Jr., Achilles III, and Achilles IV. Several early postcards exist depicting Dr. McCleery's original wolves, and I believe this is one of them. Dr. McCleery obtained Achilles in…
This photograph depicts Robert B. Jones (with a pipe in his mouth) and an unidentified man. This photo is not necessarily relevant to Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, but was scanned alongside other images. This photograph is included in the scrapbook of Earl C. Jones.
This book is by Bud Dalrymple, a South Dakota wolfer employed by the U.S. Government who obtained at least one wolf for Dr. E. H. McCleery. His book describes his wolf hunting techniques and provides anecdotes. A foreword by Ben P. R. Roose (which mentions the wolf "Bruno" who eventually came to be…
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.
This marriage certificate describes the union of Edward H. McCleery and Mary N. Byham on either February or July (the writing is unclear) 28, 1914 by George A. Sutton in Kane, PA. The application supplies details about Edward, Mary, and their families.
The 1910 Census describes the Carroll household at 5 Park Avenue in Kane, PA - a house which the family rents. Martin Carroll, head of the household, is described as a white 52-year-old male who works as a gauger of oil tanks. He was born in New York, and his parents were both born in Ireland. His…