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 “Anthonie Palamedesz.” — 45 records examined, 30 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.
A Walking Musketeer, seen from behind, by Anthonie Palamedesz.

A Walking Musketeer, seen from behind

Anthonie Palamedesz. · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Anthony Wayne, by Benjamin Tanner, 1775 - 1848

Anthony Wayne

Benjamin Tanner, 1775 - 1848 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy Holding a Sword, Standing near a Table in an Interior (recto); Various Sketches of Figures and Ornamental Forms (verso), by Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

Boy Holding a Sword, Standing near a Table in an Interior (recto); Various Sketches of Figures and Ornamental Forms (verso)

Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Anthony Wayne, by Benjamin Tanner, 1775 - 1848

Anthony Wayne

Benjamin Tanner, 1775 - 1848 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Botanist, by David Bailly

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Botanist

David Bailly · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Anthony Wayne, by John Norman, c. 1748 - 1817

Anthony Wayne

John Norman, c. 1748 - 1817 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guardroom Scene, by Pieter Bout

Guardroom Scene

Pieter Bout · ca. 1700

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

Edward Anthony

Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Josiah Hewes Anthony, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Josiah Hewes Anthony

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthony Wayne, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Anthony Wayne

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Susan Brownell Anthony, by Carl Gutherz, 28 Jan 1844 - 7 Feb 1907

Susan Brownell Anthony

Carl Gutherz, 28 Jan 1844 - 7 Feb 1907 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthony Chardon, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Anthony Chardon

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Susan B. Anthony, by Theodore C. Marceau, 28 May 1859 - 22 Jun 1922

Susan B. Anthony

Theodore C. Marceau, 28 May 1859 - 22 Jun 1922 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Anthony Mower, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Joseph Anthony Mower

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1870

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 8587 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 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.