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 “Ames, Chauncey W.” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:04 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.
Covered Jar (Albarello)

Covered Jar (Albarello)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Patent model for printers' quoins, by Ames, Chauncey W.

Patent model for printers' quoins

Ames, Chauncey W. · ca 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, by George Burroughs Torrey, 8 Mar 1863 - 14 Apr 1942

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

George Burroughs Torrey, 8 Mar 1863 - 14 Apr 1942 · 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Webster, by Thomas Ball

Daniel Webster

Thomas Ball · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, by Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947 · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Clay, by Thomas Ball

Henry Clay

Thomas Ball · 1858

Public domainThe Met
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, by Albert Levering, 1869 - 1929

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Albert Levering, 1869 - 1929 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, by Fredricks Knickerbocker Studio

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Fredricks Knickerbocker Studio · c. 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir John Herschel, by Julia Margaret Cameron

Sir John Herschel

Julia Margaret Cameron · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Nyssa ogeche W. Bartram ex Marshall

Nyssa ogeche W. Bartram ex Marshall

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Elizur or Chauncey Goodrich, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Elizur or Chauncey Goodrich

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ritual grain container (fu)

Ritual grain container (fu)

Artist not stated in the record · 1321

Public domainThe Met
Bracelet

Bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Epinette des Vosges, by Amant Constant (Amé) Lambert

Epinette des Vosges

Amant Constant (Amé) Lambert · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Charles Chauncey, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Charles Chauncey

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding shoes, by Esté

Wedding shoes

Esté · 1840–49

Public domainThe Met
Chauncey Goodrich and Jacob Abbott, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Chauncey Goodrich and Jacob Abbott

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home, by Eugene Zimmerman, 1862 - 1935

And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home

Eugene Zimmerman, 1862 - 1935 · 1898

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. 620 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 922790 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 23:04 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.