The Kathleen Burke Hale Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, and tributes spanning her life as a relief worker during World War I, as the adoptive benefactor of a French village following World War II, and as a Santa Barbara philanthropist throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

The collection consists of research materials collected by Pamela Skewes-Cox during the research of her publication, "Spanish Colonial Style: Santa Barbara and the Architecture of James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig," which she authored along with Robert Sweeney and was published by Rizzoli Press in 2015.