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. 21 shown for “Anson Dickinson” — 49 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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.
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Anson Dickinson

Portrait of a Gentleman

Anson Dickinson · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Julius White, by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Julius White

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Anson Dickinson

Portrait of a Gentleman

Anson Dickinson · ca. 1814

Public domainThe Met
John Gadsby, Jr., by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

John Gadsby, Jr.

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Henry Adam, by Anson Dickinson

John Henry Adam

Anson Dickinson · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Gilbert Stuart, by Unidentified Artist

Gilbert Stuart

Unidentified Artist · 1825?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. George Burroughs (Mary Fullerton), by Anson Dickinson

Mrs. George Burroughs (Mary Fullerton)

Anson Dickinson · 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Robert Broome, by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Robert Broome

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edward Livingston, by Anson Dickinson

Edward Livingston

Anson Dickinson · ca. 1827

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry), by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Mrs. George Washington Rodgers (Ann Perry)

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dr. Valentine Mott, by Anson Dickinson

Dr. Valentine Mott

Anson Dickinson · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Charles Francis Adams, by Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Charles Francis Adams

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Robert Watts (Matilda Ridley), by Anson Dickinson

Mrs. Robert Watts (Matilda Ridley)

Anson Dickinson · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
William Wirt, by Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864

William Wirt

Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · c. 1831-33

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
J. W. Gale, by Anson Dickinson

J. W. Gale

Anson Dickinson · ca. 1807

Public domainThe Met
Anson Greene Phelps, by Samuel Lovett Waldo, 6 Apr 1783 - 16 Feb 1861

Anson Greene Phelps

Samuel Lovett Waldo, 6 Apr 1783 - 16 Feb 1861 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Burrows, by Anson Dickinson

William Burrows

Anson Dickinson · ca. 1807–13

Public domainThe Met
Anson Phelps Stokes, by Julius Rolshoven, 1858 - 1930

Anson Phelps Stokes

Julius Rolshoven, 1858 - 1930 · c. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anson Burlingame, by McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860

Anson Burlingame

McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polytrichum juniperinum Hedw.

Polytrichum juniperinum Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendroica dominica dominica

Dendroica dominica dominica

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1939

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1938 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-06 02:28 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.