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. 16 shown for “Abraham Bradley” — 46 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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.
Rebecca at the Well, by Chauncey Bradley Ives

Rebecca at the Well

Chauncey Bradley Ives · 1854; carved 1866

Public domainThe Met
“Map of the United States Exhibiting the Post Roads" by Abraham Bradley, by Abraham Bradley

“Map of the United States Exhibiting the Post Roads" by Abraham Bradley

Abraham Bradley · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Transverse Flute in D-flat

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Artist not stated in the record · 1865 (cast c. 1917)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Unidentified Artist

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and the Lute Player, by Titian

Venus and the Lute Player

Titian · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890

Abraham Lincoln

J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by Unidentified Artist

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by Elijah C. Middleton, 2 Jul 1818 - 13 May 1883

Abraham Lincoln

Elijah C. Middleton, 2 Jul 1818 - 13 May 1883 · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900

Abraham Lincoln

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by Feodor Fuchs, active 1856 - 1876

Abraham Lincoln

Feodor Fuchs, active 1856 - 1876 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by John L. Magee, active 1844 - 1867

Abraham Lincoln

John L. Magee, active 1844 - 1867 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Abraham Lincoln

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by William H. Pratt, 1858 - 1888?

Abraham Lincoln

William H. Pratt, 1858 - 1888? · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln, by Unidentified Artist

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist · 1859

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6581 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 15:54 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.