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 “Afternoon dress” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:48 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.
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1872

Public domainThe Met
Young Lady in Afternoon Dress, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Young Lady in Afternoon Dress

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1855–58

Public domainThe Met
Young Lady in Afternoon Dress, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Young Lady in Afternoon Dress

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1847–50

Public domainThe Met
Summer Afternoon, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Summer Afternoon

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1846

Public domainThe Met
The Promenade, by Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892

The Promenade

Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892 · ca. 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Afternoon, by Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941

Afternoon

Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814

Public domainThe Met
A Summer Afternoon, by Elis F. Miller, n.d.

A Summer Afternoon

Elis F. Miller, n.d. · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress, by Chezar & Pillman

Afternoon dress

Chezar & Pillman · ca. 1903

Public domainThe Met
September Afternoon, by George Inness, born Newburgh, NY 1825-died Bridge of Allan, Scotland 1894

September Afternoon

George Inness, born Newburgh, NY 1825-died Bridge of Allan, Scotland 1894 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1843

Public domainThe Met
Late Afternoon, by George M. Bruestle, born New York City 1871-died CT 1939

Late Afternoon

George M. Bruestle, born New York City 1871-died CT 1939 · ca. 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1903–5

Public domainThe Met
Up the River, Late Afternoon, October, by Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935

Up the River, Late Afternoon, October

Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1855–1903

Public domainThe Met
Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine, by William Frederick De Haas, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1830-died at sea near Fayal, Azores 1880

Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine

William Frederick De Haas, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1830-died at sea near Fayal, Azores 1880 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Winter Afternoon at Olana, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Winter Afternoon at Olana, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Afternoon dress

Afternoon dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–36

Public domainThe Met
A Complete Group of Clouds (Afternoon), New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

A Complete Group of Clouds (Afternoon), New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844

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. 203 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 22421 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 07:48 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.