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GBH Archives GBH Archives provides access to historical content produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation. Find out more at americanarchive.org.

The GBH Archives contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. Services include the GBH Stock Sales department for licensing moving image clips, digital images, web content and text from GBH Boston, the leading producer of prime time programs for public television. Our award winning programs i

nclude NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, Antiques Roadshow, The French Chef and many more, dating back to the beginning of public television in the 1950s. The GBH Archives is also a steward of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a co-collaboration with the Library of Congress to preserve and make available historic programs from public media organizations across the nation.

05/30/2026

Scenes from Downtown Crossing, Boston in May, 1985.

05/28/2026

Scenes from Downtown Crossing, Boston in July, 1980.

05/27/2026

Boston's infamous dirty water from a 1990 GBH News story. Would you swim in the Charles River? Reporter, John Hashimoto.

05/16/2026

Along the Charles River in Cambridge, MA seen in May, 1981.

05/09/2026

A drive through Kenmore Square, Boston in 1978.

05/02/2026

Boston's double-parking problem seen in 1985.

04/18/2026

Rosie Ruiz won the 1980 Boston Marathon Women's Division but people became suspicious during the post Marathon interview when she provided curious answers to the questions. She also didn't appear as though she had just run a Marathon.
"We missed her at all our check points."

04/03/2026

Red Sox home opener at Fenway Park in April, 1977.

03/28/2026

Happy 100th birthday to fitness legend Elaine LaLanne, widow of the OG fitness legend, Jack LaLanne, who lived to be 97. Their longevity shows the power of fitness and nutrition. Here's the couple in the mid 80s.

02/28/2026

Boston Public Garden in spring.

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