Archives

Open Vault is GBH Media Library and Archives’ digital archive website providing online access to unique and historically important content produced by GBH. Explore raw archival interviews, programs, and transcripts, search GBH’s vast catalog, and request digitization of content. The GBH archive is available for research on location at GBH. Research is open to the public by appointment in our Brighton, Mass. offices.

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a mission to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media content and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have created over the past 70+ years. To date, over 160,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 550 public media organizations, producers, and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and GBH, and more than 100,000 files are available online.

Discover GBH's news archive in the Boston TV News Digital Library, a collaboration between GBH, the Boston Public Library, Cambridge Community Television, and Northeast Historic Film. The Boston TV News Digital Library makes available local news stories produced in and about Boston from 1960 to 2000. Nearly 2,000 news programs are available online.

GBH Stock Sales is the clip licensing division of the GBH Media Library and Archives. Stock Sales licenses originally shot GBH footage and web content to television producers, publishers and professional media organizations. On the GBH Stock Sales and Licensing website, producers and filmmakers can search rights-ready clips and discover additional material available for licensing by GBH.