The Santa Barbara Legacy Reel Audio Tape Collection contain recordings of oral histories, radio programs, meetings, lectures, telephone conversations, ceremonies, and music perfomances of local old timers and influential people. These 184 electronic files, extracted from 98 one quarter-inch reel-to-reel magnetic tapes, represent the earliest audio recordings made by the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

The J. Walter Collinge Photograph Collection contains over three hundred photographs by Santa Barbara photographer J. Walter Collinge (1883-1964). Primarily 8" x 10" black and white prints of architectural and scenic images, the collection also contains signed oversize and hand-tinted color photographs.

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.

The J. Walter Collinge Photograph Collection contains over three hundred photographs by Santa Barbara photographer J. Walter Collinge (1883-1964). Primarily 8" x 10" black and white prints of architectural and scenic images, the collection also contains signed oversize and hand-tinted color photographs.

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.