The Gledhill Santa Barbara Glass Plate Negative Collection consists of approximately ten thousand (10,000) glass plate negative and positive photographs, created primarily by photographers N. H. Reed and I. N. Cook, two of the most prolific commercial photographers in Santa Barbara during the period 1880-1920.

Six scrapbooks contain all thirty years of the weekly local history columns written by Mrs. Rouse for the Santa Barbara News-Press newspaper. Numbering approximately 1,500, the articles are cataloged by keywords in the Gledhill Library Subject Index. See Arrangement note for date range of articles within each scrapbook.