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 “Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864” — 43 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:45 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.
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Hayne-Hudjihini, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Hayne-Hudjihini

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Play-Within-A-Play, by Eugène Delacroix

The Play-Within-A-Play

Eugène Delacroix · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Stum-ma-nu - A Flathead Boy, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

Stum-ma-nu - A Flathead Boy

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Wa-pel-la: Chief of Musquakees, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Wa-pel-la: Chief of Musquakees

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rant Che Wai Me - Female Flying Pigeon, by Unidentified Artist

Rant Che Wai Me - Female Flying Pigeon

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mon-ka-ush-ka, by Unidentified Artist

Mon-ka-ush-ka

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mar-ko-me-te - A Menomene Brave, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

Mar-ko-me-te - A Menomene Brave

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring Frog - A Cherokee Chief, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Spring Frog - A Cherokee Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chittee Yoholo - A Seminole Chief, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

Chittee Yoholo - A Seminole Chief

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kish-ke-kosh - A Fox Brave, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Kish-ke-kosh - A Fox Brave

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ap-pa-noo-se - Saukie Chief, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Ap-pa-noo-se - Saukie Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mistippee, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Mistippee

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Se-loc-ta - A Creek Chief, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

Se-loc-ta - A Creek Chief

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

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. 1226733 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 16:45 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.