The Rideout family papers consist of collected papers, artifacts, and photographs documenting the work, travels, and personal lives of the Rideout family. The glass negatives of Eugene Glasier Rideout comprise the bulk of the collection. The collection has been divided into three series: Papers, Textiles and Artifacts, and Images. The Papers series includes two postcards and a drawing of a Hudson building. The Textiles and Artifacts series comprises various collected artifacts and clothing of the Rideouts, including several pieces of china, two bayonets, a rosewood melodeon, several portraits of the Rideout family, a cap and shawl, and a money purse made by Native Americans for Adelaide A. Rideout while a missionary at the Santee Sioux Reservation. The Images series consists primarily of glass negatives and photographic negatives (photographs and lantern slides are also included). The photographs mainly concern the personal life and travels of Eugene Glasier Rideout and his family and the various locales they lived, worked, and visited, including Hudson, Ohio, Elkhart, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois, and Charleston, West Virginia. A set of lantern slides were also found in the collection. The lantern slides appear to include high school diplomas, programs, and photographs of Hudson resident Frederick Clayton Waite (1870-1956). Some of the lantern slides also feature photographs of teachers and superintendents of Hudson Schools as well as Hudson buildings and street views. The Rideout's connection to Fred Waite is unknown.