OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “A. Hoen & Co.” — 47 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:12 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Frank M. Mayo bust portrait published by A. Hoen & Co., by A. Hoen & Co.

Frank M. Mayo bust portrait published by A. Hoen & Co.

A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
4 polkas for the piano forte A. Wallerstein, by Wallerstein, A (Anton) 1813-1892

4 polkas for the piano forte A. Wallerstein

Wallerstein, A (Anton) 1813-1892 · 185u

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Mary Anderson, by A. Hoen & Co.

Mary Anderson

A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Newark Institute Hall!, by A. Hoen & Co.

Newark Institute Hall!

A. Hoen & Co. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Garfield Memorial University, by A. Hoen & Co.

Garfield Memorial University

A. Hoen & Co. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Valley of Kah-Wee-Ya River (Four Creeks), by Tucker, Beverley

Valley of Kah-Wee-Ya River (Four Creeks)

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Sierra Nevada From the Four Creeks, by Tucker, Beverley

Sierra Nevada From the Four Creeks

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Plain Between Kah-Wee-Ya and Kings Rivers, by Tucker, Beverley

Plain Between Kah-Wee-Ya and Kings Rivers

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Plain between the San Joaquin and King's Rivers, by Tucker, Beverley

Plain between the San Joaquin and King's Rivers

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin: Leading from the Tejon Pass, by Tucker, Beverley

Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin: Leading from the Tejon Pass

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Water Line and Shores of the Ancient Lake (Colorado Desert), by Tucker, Beverley

Water Line and Shores of the Ancient Lake (Colorado Desert)

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products, by Allen & Ginter

From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

Allen & Ginter · 1890

Public domainThe Met
View of Sangre De Cristo Pass: Looking Northeast from Camp North of Summit, August 11, by Tucker, Beverley

View of Sangre De Cristo Pass: Looking Northeast from Camp North of Summit, August 11

Tucker, Beverley · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 25 matched · 25 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 08:12 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.