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GBH Archives GBH Archives provides access to historical content produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation.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

06/09/2025

Cigarette vending machine demonstration in 1978.

30/08/2025

Tomato lovers gather at the Quincy, MA Tomato Festival in August, 1986.

30/08/2025

Enthusiastic customers at a Brookline, MA farmers market in July, 1979.

30/08/2025

Pasquale Capone of Endicott St in Boston's North End is a master winemaker. Here he demonstrates how to select the best grapes for winemaking at the Chelsea produce market in an October, 1987 GBH News story. Reporter, Fritz Wetherbee.

29/08/2025

Brighton neighborhood of Boston seen in August, 1982.

23/08/2025

Take a tour of Warren Towers student dorm at Boston University in September, 1988.

22/08/2025

Students at Fisher Junior College in Boston at the beginning of the school year in September, 1982. Update: Everybody is saying this is Emerson College not Fisher Junior College.

16/08/2025

Take a Gray Line bus tour of old historical Boston in 1973.

15/08/2025

Fisherman's Feast in Boston's North End in 1973. Mary de Grandis is 11 years-old and has a key role as an angel in the Fisherman's Feast Festival. The finale of the film is Mary flying through the air (by pulley) and delivering her speech, in Italian, to the many spectators.

14/08/2025

Kids play in an abandoned lot that is also a location for development of a new apartment complex on Waverly Avenue in Allston/Brighton neighborhood of Boston in 1970.

13/08/2025

Working 9 to 5 in 1977.

12/08/2025

Scenes from Houghton's Pond recreation area in Milton, MA in July, 1982.

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