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. 15 shown for “Adam Lenckhart” — 43 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:59 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.
Lamentation Beneath the Cross, by Adam Lenckhart

Lamentation Beneath the Cross

Adam Lenckhart · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Helen Adams Keller, by Whitman, 19th - 20th century

Helen Adams Keller

Whitman, 19th - 20th century · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune, by Adam Lenckhart

Neptune

Adam Lenckhart · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Louisa Catherine Adams Clement, by Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950

Louisa Catherine Adams Clement

Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Assumption of the Virgin, by Adam Lenckhart

Assumption of the Virgin

Adam Lenckhart · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Helen Adams Keller, by Charles Whitman, active 1890s - 1900s

Helen Adams Keller

Charles Whitman, active 1890s - 1900s · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Georgianna Frances Adams, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Georgianna Frances Adams

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helen Adams Keller, by Onorio Ruotolo, 3 Mar 1888 - 18 Dec 1966

Helen Adams Keller

Onorio Ruotolo, 3 Mar 1888 - 18 Dec 1966 · 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams Whipple, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

John Adams Whipple

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alvin Adams, by John Adams Whipple, 10 Sep 1822 - 10 Apr 1891

Alvin Adams

John Adams Whipple, 10 Sep 1822 - 10 Apr 1891 · c. 1860 (after c. 1855 daguerreotype)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by Unidentified Artist

John Adams

Unidentified Artist · c. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams

John Adams

Artist not stated in the record · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by Henry H. Houston, active 1796 - c.1798

John Adams

Henry H. Houston, active 1796 - c.1798 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1784 - 1844

John Adams

Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1784 - 1844 · 1827

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13790 matched · 40 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 2026-08-29 06:59 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.