This is a collection of various historical and genealogical reference works on Pennsylvania. These references cover 1000's of individuals, and are an excellent way to start or continue research focused on PA. This collection includes all of the individual collections covering Bucks County, PA (Please see individual collection listings for detailed descriptions of titles.)

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BU01 - Bucks County PA - Everything Collection (All Collections on Bucks County)

BU02 - County History & Biography Collection
History of Bucks County, To Which is Appended a History of the Township of Wrightstown (William J. Buck & Charles W. Smith, 1855, 143 pages)
History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (J. H. Battle, 1887, 1080 pages)
Local Sketches and Legends Pertaining to Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania (William J. Buck, 1887, 336 pages)
Book of Biographies, Bucks County, Penn'a (George Ross, 1899, 494 pages)
History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, (2nd Edition) (William H. W. Davis, Warren S. Ely, & John W. Jordan, 1876, 1905, 1865 pages)
A Collection of Papers Read Before the Bucks County Historical Society Vol. 1-4 (Bucks County Historical Society, 1908-1917, 2806 pages)
Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks (Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, 712 pages)

BU03 - Regional and Miscellaneous History Collection

Town, Township & Regional Histories
Historical Sketches Chiefly Relating to the Early Settlement of Friends at Falls, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (G. W. B., 1882, 152 pages)
A History of Bristol Borough (Doron Green, 1911, 381 pages)
1879-1929 50th Anniversary Perkasie Borough, Bucks County, Penna (Anniversary Committee, 1929, 216 pages)
Historic Newtown (Edward R. Barnsley, 1934, 139 pages)
Centennial of Doylestown Borough 1838-1938 (1938, 88 pages)

Church, Family, Education, Military and Miscellaneous Histories
Industrial and Commercial Resources of Pennsylvania (Historical Publishing Company, 1886, 122 pages)
History of the Doylestown Guards (William W. H. Davis, 1887, 237 pages)
Industries and Wealth of the Principle Points in Southeastern Pennsylvania (Excepting Philadelphia) Embracing Dauphin, York, Lancaster, Schuylkill, Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware Counties (American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1890, 148 pages)
Farmers National Bank of Bucks County, Bristol, Pennsylvania. A Century's Record 1814-1914 (Charles E. Scott, 1914, 76 pages)
Papers Read Before the Centennial of Newtown Friend's Meeting (Newtown Enterprise, 1915, 74 pages)
Historical Sketch of First Reformed Church and Auxiliary Organizations, Quakertown, PA (Elam J. Snyder, 1919, 52 pages)
The 200th Anniversary of Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Walter M. Jenkins, 1923, 61 pages)
A History of the Tohickon Union Church, Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (William John Hinke, 1925, 508 pages)
Lutheranism in Bucks County 1734-1934 (Allen S. Fisher, 1935, 215 pages)
St. John's Lutheran Church, Spinnerstown, PA 1869-1944 (Henry M. Kistler, 1944, 44 pages)
Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1684-1700 (Colonial Society of PA, 1943, 454 pages)
225th Anniversary - Plumstead Friends Meeting House (Anonymous, 1953, 14 pages)
A History of Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church 1726-1976 (Helen H. Gemmill, 1976, 44 pages)

BU04 – Maps Atlases & Images Collection

Maps & Atlases
1831 Map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (A. W. Kennedy, Color)
1850 Map of Bucks County Pennsylvania (W. E. Morris, Color)
1859 Farm Map of Plumstead Township, Bucks Co., Penn'a (Mich'l Hughes, Color)
1876 Combination Atlas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (J. D. Scott, 95 pages, B/W)
1891 Atlas of Bucks Co., Penna (E. P. Noll & Co., Color)

Birds-eye Town Views
Quakertown, Pennsylvania (1885, O. H. Bailey & Co.)
Tullytown, Pennsylvania (1887, T. M. Fowler)
Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (1893 T. M. Fowler)
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (1893, T. M. Fowler)
Perkasie, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (1894, T. M. Fowler)
Sellersville, Bucks County, PA (1894, T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)
Properties of the Delaware River Improvement Company on Morrisville Island, Opposite Trenton, N.J. (1900, T. M. Fowler)

BU05 - Directory Collection (1860-1937)
Boyd's Business Directory of the Counties of Adams, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Lancaster, Montgomery and York, PA. together with a General Directory of all the Inhabitants of Harrisburg 1860 (William H. Boyd, 1860, 326 pages)
Business Directory and Gazetteer of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (S. Hersey, 1871, 434 pages)
Bucks County Directory - 1894 (James D. Scott, 1894, 362 pages)
Bucks County Directory - 1902 (J. L. Kramer, 1902, 484 pages)
January 1st, 1904 Telephone Directory (Standard Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1904, 32 pages)
Telephone Directory - Philadelphia & Vicinity - January 1911 (The Bell Telephone Company of PA, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. & The Diamond State Telephone Co., 1911, 568 pages)
Telephone Directory - October 1912 - Jenkintown - Doylestown District (Bell Telephone Co. of PA & American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1912, 64 pages)
The Farm Journal Farm and Business Directory of Bucks County Pennsylvania 1914 (Wilmer Atkinson Company, 1914, 276 pages)
Classified Business Directory of Eastern Pennsylvania [1919] (Lehigh Valley Review, 1919, 212 pages)
Bangor and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - December 1936 (Blue Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1936, 282 pages)
Telephone Directory - Trenton District - September 1937 (New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, 1937, 186 pages)

BU06 - Directory Collection (1939-1959)
Reading and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - March 1939 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1939, 248 pages)
Phillipsburg - Including Nearby Points Telephone Directory - December 1939 (New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, 1939, 245 pages)
Allentown and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - August 1940 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1940, 284 pages)
1946 Directory - Sellersville, PA (J. F. Snyder, 1946, 61 pages)
Phillipsburg - Including Nearby Points Telephone Directory - March 1948 (New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, 1948, 92 pages)
Bittler's Bucks County Pennsylvania Farm Directory - 1952 Edition (Chas F. & C. M. Louise Bittler, 1952, 116 pages)
Clark's Doylestown Pennsylvania Buyers' Guide 1954-1955 (John C. Clark & Co., 1954, 88 pages)
Easton and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - February 1956 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1956, 308 pages)
Bittler's Bucks County Pennsylvania Farm Directory - 1958 Edition (Chas F. & C. M. Louise Bittler, 1958, 88 pages)
Newtown Telephone Directory - October 1959 (Council Rock Class of 1961, 1959, 72 pages)