The Society maintains a collection of periodicals and scholarly journals related to local history as well as the newsletters of many of the region’s historical societies. The major journals and periodicals held by the Society include the following:
The American Architect & Building News (1876-1908) / American Architect (1909-1921) / American Architect and Architectural Review (1921-1924) / American Architect and Architecture (1925-1938): 1876-1935 (vols. 1-147)
Architecture: 1920-1936 (vols. 42-49, 51-73)
Arts and Decoration: 1919, 1921-1923
Bryn Athyn Post: 1920-1929, 1970-1976, 1979-present
New Bucks County Magazine (1961) / Bucks County Life (1961-unknown): 1961-1967
Bucks County Town and Country Living (1992-2011) / Bucks County Magazine (2012-present): 1992-2011
Bucks County Realtor (1952-1973): 1956 (vol. 5)
Bucks County Traveler (1949-1958) / Pennsylvania Traveler (1958-1960): 1952-1960
Bulletin of Friends Historical Society of Philadelphia (1906-1923) / Bulletin of Friends Historical Association (1924-1962)/ Quaker History (1962 to date): 1906-2007
Country Life in America (1901-1917) / The New Country Life (1917-1918) / Country Life (1919-1942): 1901-1919 (vols. 1-35)
Doylestown Panorama (1958-1962) / Panorama: A Magazine of Bucks County (1962-1964) / Bucks County Panorama (1964-1978): 1961-1974
East Montgomery County Realtor: 1953-1957
The Gardeners’ Chronicle of America: 1918-1954
Germantown Crier (1949-present): 1958-1971
The Historian (1961-1971) / Bucks County Historical Society Journal (1971-1980) / Mercer Mosaic (1984-1990): 1961-1979, 1984-1990
Montgomery County Historical Society Bulletin: 1936-present (complete)
Montgomery County Town and Country Living: 1998-2010
Old York Road Caller: 1935-1948
Old York Road Historical Society Bulletin: 1937-present (complete)
The Penickpacka Historical Society Bulletin: 1981-1998 (complete)
Pennsylvania Heritage: 1975-present
Pennsylvania History: 1936-present
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 1878-present (complete)
Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (1895-1947) / Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (1948 to date): 1895-present
Scientific American, Architects and Builders Edition (1885-1894) / Scientific American, Building Edition (1895-1901) / Scientific American Building Monthly (1902-1905): 1885-1886, 1894-1903, 1905 (vols. 1, 2, 17-36, 39)