The Santa Barbara County Court Records contain over 2,300 individual court cases beginning with California statehood through the first decade of the 20th century. The cases are organized in one large chronological series by date. The variety of cases represented span legal proceedings from debt settlement to probate to murder. The plaintiffs and defendants are a Who's Who of local Californios and early American settlers to Santa Barbara.

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.

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.