GBH Archives

GBH Archives GBH Archives provides access to historical content produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation.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.

08/08/2026

A GBH News story about the hot summer of 1988 in Boston. Reporter, Hope Kelly.

08/01/2026

Fenway Park crowd in the early 90s.

07/27/2026

East Boston residents react to seeing the Ten O'Clock News van driving through their neighborhood in August, 1976.

07/25/2026

Boston's notorious adult entertainment district known as the Combat Zone was located on lower Washington Street bordering Chinatown. Here's how it looked in September, 1985.

07/24/2026

News story about the Nintendo obsession in July, 1989 from GBH News. Reporter, Jan vonMehren

07/18/2026

Filming a scene in South Boston for the television show 'Spenser: For Hire' with Robert Urich in 1985.

07/04/2026

Arthur Fiedler, the legendary Boston Pops conductor, makes his way through an adoring crowd on his way to the Hatch Shell for the Fourth of July concert in the late 1970s. Arthur was the founder of the outdoor concerts on the Esplanade with the first one on July 4, 1929.

06/27/2026

Before social media, people reacted differently to seeing someone in public with a camera. People were thrilled at the prospect of getting filmed, and maybe ending up on tv, as seen here in Downtown Crossing, Boston in the 1980s.
What happened?

05/30/2026

Scenes from Downtown Crossing, Boston in May, 1985.

05/28/2026

Scenes from Downtown Crossing, Boston in July, 1980.

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