Bibliography

A note from your librarian, Beth...

We have advanced from "trivia" in the 70's to being "information junkies" in the cyberage. As if you don't already have enough neat stuff to read, here's our extensive bibliography of books and periodicals on the subject of weather vanes. Some of them we have researched in libraries and museums; some have been referenced by other authors; and some we are pleased to have in our collection.

Some of the entries are classics in the world of weather vanes, in particular Myrna Kaye's writings. Others are nice because of their great photography, like Heritage Above by Marcia Burnell. Most of them are wonderful because they also teach us so much about the history of metalworking and design. Just imagine...if you're doing a book report, here's all you ever needed to know about vanes, but didn't know where to look!

It's like a treasure hunt to catalog and update this list. If you know of any references we've missed, email your submission to us. We will include it and give you credit on this page. Thanks for being part of THE WEATHER VANE HOME PAGE.

• Allen, Edward B. "Old American Weather Vanes." International Studio, LXXX, No. 33, March 1925, pp. 450-453.
• Allen, Edward B. "The Useful and Agreeable." Time, Sept. 27, 1954, p. 80.
• Allen, Edward B. "Vanes." New Yorker, Sept. 12, 1964, pp. 39-40.
• American Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. (Catalog of the) Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, NY, 1965, pp. 20, 23-28.
• Antiques, XLI, No. 2, Feb. 1942, p. 136.
• The Anvil's Ring. Vol. 21, Issue 1, p. 42. (Thanks, and a tip o' the hat to: Jim McCarty, Father Helias Forge, Taos, MO.)
• The Anvil's Ring. Vol. 43, Issue 1, p. 43. (Thanks, and a tip o' the hat to: Jim McCarty, Father Helias Forge, Taos, MO.)
• The Anvil's Ring. Vol. 43, Issue 2, p. 27. (Thanks, and a tip o' the hat to: Jim McCarty, Father Helias Forge, Taos, MO.)
• Ayrton, O. Maxwell. "Some Modern Weathervanes." International Studio, XIX, No. 3, March 1903, p. 131.
• Babcock, Mary Kent Davey. Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston, 1947, p. 183.
• Babcock, Mary Kent Davey. "Weather-Vane on Christ Church, Boston." Old-Time New England, (Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities), XXXII, No. 2, Oct. 1941, pp. 63-65.
• Benes, Peter. New England Meeting House and Church: 1630-1850. Boston University and The Currier Gallery of Art: 1979.
• Bernier, Oliver. "The Weather Vane." American Heritage, March 1988, pp. 24-25.
• Bishop, Robert. American Folk Sculpture. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1974.
• Bishop, Robert. A Gallery of Weathervanes & Whirligigs. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1981.
• Brown, Abram English. Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Market, or, Peter Faneuil and His Gift. Boston: 1900.
• Brown, Elizabeth A. "Rooftop Folk Art Is Blowin' in the Wind." The Christian Science Monitor, May 2, 1990, pp. 10-11.
• Buckert, Ilse and Nesbitt, Alexander. Weathervanes and Weathercreatures. Newport, RI: Third and Elm Press, 1970.
• Burnell, Marcia. Heritage Above: A Tribute to Maine's Weather Vanes. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1991.
• Cahill, Holger. American Folk Sculpture, Catalog of the Newark Museum. Newark, NJ: 1931.
• Cancellieri, Francesco. De Secretariis Basilicac Vaticanae, Vol. III. Rome: 1786.
• Carmer, Carl. Eagle in the Wind. New York: Aladdin Books, 1948.
• Catalog of Weather Vanes. Associated American Artists Galleries. New York: 1954.
• Chamberlain, S. "Le Coq Gaulois Comes Down from Its Perch." American Architect, CXLII, October 1932, pp. 14-16.
• Christensen, Erwin O. Early American Wood Carving. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Co., 1952.
• Christensen, Erwin O. The Index of American Design. New York: Macmillan National Gallery of Art; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1950.
• Christensen, Erwin O. "Weathervanes". Antiques, Vol. LIX, No. 3, March 1951, pp. 198-200.
• Coolidge, John T. Weather Vanities. Milton, MA: 1978.
• Cushing, L.W., & Sons. c.1883 Catalogue No. 9 Waltham, MA. Facsimile printed Lincoln, MA: Francis Andrews & Philip DeNormandie, 1974.
• Cytryn, Enid and Schwartz, Leonard. A Moving Fable. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1972.
• Diderot, Denis, ed. Encyclopédie. Facsimile of the first edition of 1751-1780. Stuttgart: 1967.
• Doherty, Jim. "A barn is more than a building, it is a shrine to our agrarian past." Smithsonian, August 1989, pp. 30-43.
• Drake, Samuel Adams. Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston. Boston: 1900, 1873. Detroit: 1970.
• Drepperd, Carl W. and Smith, Marjorie Matthews. Handbook of Tomorrow's Antiques. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953.
• Early Maine Weathervanes, brochure for the Treat Gallery, Bates College. Lewiston, ME: 1971.
• Earnest, Adele. "Early American Folk Sculpture." California Palace of the Legion of Honor Bulletin, XII, No. 5, September 1954, pp. 61-67.
• Eaton, Allen H. Handicrafts of New England. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949 and Bonanza Books, 1959.
• Eberlein, Harold Donaldson. "Weather-Vanes." American Homes and Gardens, IX, November 1912, pp. 392-94, 403.
• Fiske, J.W. Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Copper Weathervanes and Finials. New York: 1893. Reprinted Princeton, NJ: Pyne Press, 1971.
• Fitzgerald, Ken. Weathervanes and Whirligigs. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1967.
• Gardner, J. Starkie. English Ironwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London: 1911.
• Gott, Joseph W. "Goshen's Cupolas." Independent Republican, September 2, 1992, pp. 8-9.
• Hale, Richard W. "The Real Reason Why a Grasshopper Was Used for the Faneuil Hall Weather Vane." Old-Time New England, (Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities), XXXI, No. 3, January 1941, pp. 70-71.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Drowne's Wooden Image", in Mosses from an Old Manse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882.
• Halpert, Edith G. "A Native American Art." House and Garden, LXXX, October 1941, pp. 51, 86-87.
• Hertz, Louis H. Antique Collecting for Men. New York: Hawthorn, 1969.
• Holland, Muriel. "Something in the Air." Coming Events in Britain, December 1965, pp. 24-26.
• Hornung, Clarence P. Treasury of American Design. New York: Abrams, 1972.
• Jenkins, Dorothy H. "Weathervanes." Woman's Day, July 1968, pp. 85-86.
• Johnson, Bruce E. "Weather Vanes." Country Living, October 1993, pp. 80, 86, 260.
• Jones, Herbert G. Maine Memories. Portland, ME: Harmon Publishing Co., 1940.
• Kauffman, Henry J. Early American Ironware, Cast and Wrought. New York: Weathervane Books, 1965.
• Kaye, Myrna. "Addendum: Discovering Portsmouth's Finials." Maine Antique Digest, September 1994, p. 11-B.
• Kaye, Myrna. "America's weather vanes." The Magazine Antiques, March 1988, pp. 668-677.
• Kaye, Myrna. "Hark: The Herald Angel." Yankee, December 1966, pp. 42-44.
• Kaye, Myrna. Articles in Yankee. September, October, November and December (see above) 1966; January, February, July and September 1967.
• Kaye, Myrna. Yankee Weathervanes. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1975.
• Kelly, J.F. "Three Early Connecticut Weather-Vanes." Old-Time New England (Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities), XXXI, No. 4, April 1941, pp. 96-99.
• Kerns, Terry. "Antique Folk Art on Top of the Barn." Small Farmer's Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter, pp. 67-68.
• Ketchum, William C., Jr. The Catalog of American Antiques. New York: Rutledge Books, 1977.
• Kettell, Russell Hawes. Pine Furniture of Early New England, plates 159-67. New York: 1929.
• Keyes, Homer Eaton. "And Joy a Vane that Veers." Antiques, XVIII, No. 6, December 1930, p. 482.
• Klamkin, Charles. Barns: Their History, Preservation and Restoration. New York: Hawthorn, 1972.
• Klamkin, Charles. Weathervanes: The History, Manufacture and Design of an American Folk Art. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.
• Klamkin, Marian and Klamkin, Charles. Wood Carvings, North American Folk Sculptures. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974.
• LeClerq, Henri. "Coq des Clochers." Dictionnaire D'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie, Paris, 1914, III, Pt. 2, Col. 2901-6.
• Lief, Judith Siegel. "Beyond the Swell body." Traditional Building, September/October 1994, p. 11.
• Linde, G. & Aberg, G. Vindflojlar (Weathervanes). Sweden: Gislov Museum of Blacksmithing, 1977. (Thanks, and a tip o' the hat to: Ulf Brauer, Knislinge, Sweden.)
• Lipman, Jean. American Folk Art in Wood, Metal & Stone. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948.
• Lipman, Jean and Winchester, Alice. The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876. New York: Viking Press and The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974.
• Little, Nina Fletcher. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.
• Lord, Priscilla Sawyer and Foley, Daniel J. The Folk Arts and Crafts of New England. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co., 1975, pp. 66-71.
• Lyndon, Donlyn. The City Observed: Boston, a Guide to the Architecture of the Hub. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
• MacDonald, W.A. "The Man Who Tells the World Which Way the Wind Blows." Boston Transcript, magazine section, July 7, 1928, Pt. 5, pp. 1-2.
• Martin, Eugene. "Le Coq du Clocher." Memoires de L'Academie de Stanislas, I, Series 6, Nancy, 1904, pp. 1-40.
• Matthews, Richard. "A Good Vane." Country Journal, January 1989, pp. 50-55.
• Miller, Steve. The Art of the Weathervane. Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984.
• Mockridge, Patricia and Philip. Weathervanes of Great Britain. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1990.
• Needham, A. English Weathervanes, Their Stories & Legends from Medieval to Modern Times. Sussex, England: Haywards Heath, 1953.
• Nelson, John A. Folk Art Weather Vanes. Stackpole Books, 1990. (Thanks, and a tip o' the hat to: Dave Brown, Heritage 'Smithing, Heritage Hill State Historical Park, Green Bay, WI. )
• Newell, William. The Cockerel of the New Brick on his Cambridge Perch. Boston: 1873.
• Parke-Bernet Galleries. Catalog of the American Heritage Society Auction of Americana, New York, November 12-13, 1971.
• Polley, Robert L., ed. America's Folk Art, Treasures of American Folk Arts and Crafts in Distinguished Museums and Collections. Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corp., 1971.
• Pötz, Clemens Hellmut. Wetterfahnen. München: Callwey, 1988.
• Reaveley, Mabel E. Weathervane Secrets. Westford, MA: 1984.
• Reif, Rita. "Weather Vanes Get Attention at Eye Level." New York Times, March 12, 1989.
• Reynolds, Chase. "Maine's Weather Vanes - Sentinels of the Sky." Down East, the Magazine of Maine, March 1991, pp. 30-33.
• Romaine, Lawrence B. A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1960.
• Romaine, Lawrence B. "Weathervanes." The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, I, No. 21, January 1937, p. 8.
• Sanderson, Edmund L. Waltham Industries. Waltham, MA: 1957.
• Sinnott, Edmund W. Meetinghouse and Church in Early New England. New York: 1963.
• Skinner, Inc. Americana, Illustrated Catalog #1318. Bolton, MA: 1990.
• Sloane, Eric. Folklore of American Weather. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1963.
• Sloane, Eric. Our Vanishing Landscape. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1955.
• Sonn, Albert H. Early American Wrought Iron, III, New York, 1928, pp. 82-105.
• Sporer, Lorenz. Münchener Metallornamenten & Blitzableiter Artikel Fabrik, catalog. München: 1995.
• Stoyle, Lewis E. "Vane Fellows Always Found at Their Places of Business." Boston Transcript, March 25, 1931, Pt. 3, p. 1.
• Swan, Mabel M. "On Weather Vanes." Antiques, XXIII, No. 2, February 1933, pp. 64-65.
• Thomas, John and Betty. "Vanishing Vanes." Sunday Times-Union, Albany, New York, August 31, 1969, B-7.
• Thwing, Leroy L. "Deacon Shem Drowne -- Maker of Weather-vanes." Early American Industries Association Chronicle, II, No. 1, September 1937, pp. 1-2, 7.
• Tinkham, Sandra S., ed. Catalog of Wood Carvings and Weather Vanes. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1980.
• Vallance, Aymer. "British Stained Glass, Pottery and Metalwork." The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art, London, 1908, 26, B228.
• Van Court, Robert H. "New Type of Weathervane." American Magazine of Art, VII, No. 12, October 1916, pp. 489-93.
• "Washington's Weather Vane." The Magazine Antiques, 47, No. 2, February 1945.
• Wellman, Rita. "American Weathervanes." House Beautiful, January 1939, pp. 50-54, 69.
• Welsh, Peter C. American Folk Art, The Art and Spirit of a People, From the Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne Collection. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1965.
• Westervelt, A.B. & W.T. Co., Catalog #6. New York: 1883. Reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 1982.
• Whipple, J. Rayner. "Old New England Weather Vanes." Old-Time New England (Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities), Vol. XXI, No. 2, October 1940, pp. 45-56. Reprinted in Hobbies, April 1941, pp. 46-50.
• Winchester, Alice, ed. The Antiques Treasury. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1959.
• Wissinger, Joanna. Victorian Details. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1990.