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. 18 shown for “Albert Edward Edenshaw” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:47 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.
Raven rattle, by Albert Edward Edenshaw

Raven rattle

Albert Edward Edenshaw · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Louis Albert Gudebrod, by Edward Bradstreet, 11 Nov 1878 - 14 Jan 1921

Louis Albert Gudebrod

Edward Bradstreet, 11 Nov 1878 - 14 Jan 1921 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, by Albert Bierstadt

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Albert Sidney Johnston, by Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888

Albert Sidney Johnston

Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Albert Sidney Johnston, by George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885

Albert Sidney Johnston

George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lemuel Shaw, by Southworth and Hawes

Lemuel Shaw

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Isolepis crassiuscula Hook. f.

Isolepis crassiuscula Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1933 to Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, by Edward Pearce

Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire

Edward Pearce · ca. 1677–80

Public domainThe Met
Edward Southworth, by J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890

Edward Southworth

J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Photographie ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations, by Edouard Baldus

La Photographie ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations

Edouard Baldus · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Elie Nadelman, by Albert Edward Sterner, 1863 - 1946

Elie Nadelman

Albert Edward Sterner, 1863 - 1946 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albert Sands Southworth, by Southworth and Hawes

Albert Sands Southworth

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1845–50

Public domainThe Met
[George Edward ?], by John and Charles Watkins

[George Edward ?]

John and Charles Watkins · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
[William Edward Frost], by John and Charles Watkins

[William Edward Frost]

John and Charles Watkins · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
William Henry Harrison, by Southworth and Hawes

William Henry Harrison

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
[Nine Portraits in Original Passe-Partout], by James William Bailey

[Nine Portraits in Original Passe-Partout]

James William Bailey · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
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. 371 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 203136 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 08:47 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.