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This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery giving a kiss to one of his wolves 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 front of the card reads, "The Kiss of the Wild © Nicolas Kane, Pa." The back reads "Copyrighted by THE…

Date: Between 1929 and 1932

This photograph depicts three wolves 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 front of the card reads, ""Curiosity" ©." The cropped version of this photograph is an AZO undivided postcard and the back reads…

Date: Between 1929 and 1949

This photograph depicts two wolves (presumably offspring of the famous outlaw wolf named "The Custer Wolf") at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. The cropped version of this photograph is an AZO undivided postcard. The caption on the front of the card…

Date: Between 1929 and 1932

This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery with two of his wolves named Romulus and Remus at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. The uncropped version of this photograph is a postcard. The caption on the front of the card reads, "Romulus and Remus © Nicolas…

Date: Between 1929 and 1949

This photograph depicts four young male wolves 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 front of the card reads, "A Group of Young Males ©."

This photograph was featured in the Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA) on…

Date: Between 1929 and 1932

This photograph depicts four wolves - young males according to the caption of a very similar photograph - 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 front of the card reads, "The Scent of Disapproval - ©." I believe…

Date: Between 1929 and 1932

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.

This photograph depicts Dr. McCleery with his wolf named Romulus 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 front of the card reads, ""Romulus" _ A Scrappy Pet _ © Nicolas Kane Pa."

This photograph was featured in…

Date: Between 1929 and 1932

This is a silent Fox Movietone News reel which depicts Dr. McCleery standing in front of the wolf park entrance and then walking in the fenced-in runway between the wolf pens as the wolves fight through the wire of the pens. Visitors to the wolf park can be seen outside of the pens.

This film is…

Date: Early 1930s

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

This antler is from a bull elk shot by Dr. E. H. McCleery in the western United States, possibly in Montana.

According to John Lorenzo (great nephew of Earl Jones, Dr. McCleery's main wolf keeper), John found the antlers in the attic at the Jones' house on Pine Street and asked his grandpa Ed…

Date: The elk was probably shot between 1891 and 1945

This article reports that Dr. E. H. McCleery has established another wolf park near Coatesville, PA. This new park was constructed by C. A. Carlson and his son, and the stonework (presumably including the stone arch) was created by Carl Swanseen. Martin T. Carroll will be the manager of the new…

Date: May 3, 1930

This article reports that the famous wolf pack owned by Dr. E. H. McCleery - now containing almost 100 wolves - has been divided. Twenty-five of the wolves have been moved to a park at Gap, PA, near Coatesville. Only adult wolves will be kept at the Gap park because Kane has a better climate for…

Date: May 3, 1930

This article reports that Earl Coulter is erecting signs advertising the new McCleery Wolf Pack near Coatesville, PA. The signs will be put up in Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Western New Jersey. The article describes the signs - one of which depicts Little Red Riding Hood's encounter with the…

Date: May 3, 1930

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

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

This photograph depicts three men with a dead wolf (one of the wolves from Dr. McCleery's wolf park between Gap and Coatesville, Pennsylvania after its closure), a bottle of whiskey, and a gun. The man on the left holding the gun is George Stern, one of the keepers at the wolf park. The man in the…

Date: 1931

This color linen postcard is an illustration depicting five wolves at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA, among trees and metal "dens." The caption reads "The McCleery Wolf Pack at Kane, Pa." The artwork is signed "M. C. MacEwen '31" and the code 3A357…

Date: 1931

This article reports that Ansel Nelson (service station owner at East Kane) has been hired to kill some of Dr. McCleery's wolves as part of the pack's maintenance. Partial text of the article (everything relevant to Dr. McCleery) is quoted below.

Date: January 10, 1931

This article reports that Dr. McCleery's wolves seem to howl more often in the winter than during other seasons. Partial text of the article (everything relevant to Dr. McCleery) is quoted below.

Date: January 13, 1931