Special Collections

From the Vault

The steel shelves of the GBH vault hold six decades of radio and television programs, an exuberant collection of finished shows and outtakes, successes and missteps, all stored at a constant, cool 62 degrees. “From the Vault,” launched in 2011, is an ongoing collaboration with GBH Radio (89.7), and GBH.org, bringing treasures from the archive to new audiences, when rights permit.

While most of the Open Vault collections are designed for scholarly research, “From the Vault” is meant for a wider viewership. Selections to date give a sense of the range of the GBH collection, from a rare, unedited 1990 interview with Steve Jobs, to interviews with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and James Baldwin for a 1963 program called “The Negro and the American Promise,” a 1967 film featuring Dr. Timothy Leary making the case for LSD, and clips from the first ZOOM series in the early 1970s.

Check back with us from time to time to see what new gems we’ve brought off the shelves and back out into the world.

Achilles And Hector
Achilles Goes Back Into Battle
Ahmad Jamal
Alan Dawson
Alan Kay, 1990
Animal Spirits
Applique
Art of Ireland, The
Art Taylor
Artist and the Mirror, The
Asparagus From Tip to Butt
... and 141 more, continuing below.
Bargello Bean Sprouts, Home Grown Beef and Vegetables Bell Pulls, Borders And Bandings Bengtz on Drawing Bill Cosby Interview Bill Gates, 1990 Bill Lee Bob Seay introduces a clip of Dr. Alfred Worcester Boston School Committee Report On Sit-ins Boston Symphony Audience Learns of the Death of JFK Boston Symphony Audience Learns of the Death of JFK: Radio Spot with Interview Bouillabaisse A La Marseillaise Boycott Report Cancer Case of the Frozen Addict, The Chains Childhood Chinese Soups Christmas Tree Civil Rights Panel With Louis Lyons Cold Cures Cone, The Crewel Point Cross Stitch David Ferry Death Of Patroclus, The Designing Needlepoint Designs from China Duel Between Paris And Menelaus, The; Helen and Aphrodite Ecstasy, The, Part I Ecstasy, The, Part II Egg Foo Yung Embassy To Achilles, The First Patriots' Day, The: An Eyewitness Account By Dr. Alfred Worcester Fluoridation For Fussy Eaters Freedom Stay-Out: What Happened This Afternoon Garden, The, Part I Garden, The, Part II Geometric Needlepoint Gods Graphics A To Z Heart Disease Hector And Andromache Here's How You Do It How Big Do Things Look? Is Man Free To Choose? James Baldwin Interview James Brown and Mayor Kevin White Address the Crowd at the Boston Garden James Brown Speaks to the Crowd at the Boston Garden Japanese Temple Sculpture Jilting of Troilus, The John Ciardi John Updike Just Ties Larry Tesler, 1992 Lasagne a la Francaise Lautrec in Paris Let's Dance! Light, Dark and Daumier Line Dancing and Disco Fashion Lion Head Live Broadcast [1 of 4] Live Broadcast [2 of 4] Live Broadcast [3 of 4] Live Broadcast [4 of 4] Love and Marriage LSD: Lettvin Vs Leary A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) Made in Japan: Ukiyo-e Prints
Malcolm X Malcolm X Interview March on Roxbury Mark Van Doren Martin Luther King Jr. Interview Marvin Minsky, 1990 Memories of Fenway Park Mental Health Mike Markkula, 1992 Mitch Kapor, 1990 Mother and Child Nature Vs. Nurture Needle Painting Newbury Street Review Ode On a Grecian Urn Odetta Gordon performs "Give Me Your Hand" Of Time and The Artist Old Age Oriental Gold Overweight Painters and Pioneers Paul Ceruzzi, 1991 Peking Duck I Peking Duck II Peking Ravioli Phil Esposito On Being Traded To The New York Rangers Phoenix And The Turtle, The Pre-Boycott Report Press Conference [1 of 2] Press Conference [2 of 2] Priam And Achilles Psychoanalysis: A Personal View Quarrel Between Agamemnon And Achilles, The Reaction to Boycott Report [1 of 2] Reaction to Boycott Report [2 of 2] Rembrandt Remembering James Brown at the Boston Garden, 1968 Reporter's Special : TV Violence Rice and Tea Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur Robert Graves Robert Lucky, 1991 Robert Penn Warren Roumanian Stitch Roy Haynes Satin / Roumanian Stitch Selected Ballads Send In Your Zoom Ideas Sentiments In Stitches Sheila Jordan Shisha Work Social Scale Space Age Canvas Steve Jobs, 1990 Steve Wozniak, 1992 Stitches in Needlepoint Surrealism: Seekers of the Dream Sweet and Sour Ted Nelson, 1990 Theatre and Dance Thinking Big Thinking Bigger Ticking Sampler Turkey Work TV, Children, And Violence What Status For Women? What The Brain Does Women and Beauty X. J. Kennedy