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 “Anne Seymour Damer” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 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.
Shock Dog (nickname for a dog of the Maltese breed), by Anne Seymour Damer

Shock Dog (nickname for a dog of the Maltese breed)

Anne Seymour Damer · probably 1782

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus helvolus (Trin.) Durand & Schinz

Sporobolus helvolus (Trin.) Durand & Schinz

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/10/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus, by workshop of Guido Durantino

Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus

workshop of Guido Durantino · ca. 1550–70

Public domainThe Met
Aristida hordeacea Kunth

Aristida hordeacea Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/10/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Story of Golden Locks, by Seymour Joseph Guy

Story of Golden Locks

Seymour Joseph Guy · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Microsorum heterocarpum (Blume) Ching

Microsorum heterocarpum (Blume) Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies of a Standing Woman Holding a Spindle and a Woman’s Head in Profile to the Right, by Antoine Watteau

Studies of a Standing Woman Holding a Spindle and a Woman’s Head in Profile to the Right

Antoine Watteau · ca. 1714–18

Public domainThe Met
Erigeron coulteri Porter in Porter & J.M. Coult.

Erigeron coulteri Porter in Porter & J.M. Coult.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Horseman, by James Seymour

Portrait of a Horseman

James Seymour

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button for Project Youth

Pinback button for Project Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor, by George Cruikshank

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor

George Cruikshank · May 1, 1812

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Jack, by Thomas Seymour III, American, 1735 - 1829

Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Jack

Thomas Seymour III, American, 1735 - 1829 · January 22, 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Julia Catherine Seymour Conkling, by Unidentified Artist

Julia Catherine Seymour Conkling

Unidentified Artist · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, by F. Palmer, No. 1, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, by F. Palmer, No. 1

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1847

Public domainThe Met
Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptist Mariners Chapel, New York, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

Baptist Mariners Chapel, New York

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · ca. 1848

Public domainThe Met
Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower Tokens, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

Flower Tokens

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1847–49

Public domainThe Met
Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richmond Seminary, Staten Island, N.Y., by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

Richmond Seminary, Staten Island, N.Y.

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1847–48

Public domainThe Met
Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
New England Hotel, Broadway, Adjoining Trinity Church Yard, New York, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

New England Hotel, Broadway, Adjoining Trinity Church Yard, New York

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · ca. 1848

Public domainThe Met
Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 66 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 24429 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.