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 “Arthur Wesley Dow” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 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.
Linen Press, by Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony

Linen Press

Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony · ca. 1904

Public domainThe Met
Arthur Wesley Dow, by Gertrude Käsebier, 18 May 1852 - 13 Oct 1934

Arthur Wesley Dow

Gertrude Käsebier, 18 May 1852 - 13 Oct 1934 · c. 1895-98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Raven, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Raven

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Barberries, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Barberries

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat", by Arthur Wesley Dow

"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"

Arthur Wesley Dow · 1916

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Ancient textile pattern, Japanese, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Ancient textile pattern, Japanese

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1901/published 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Chrysanthemum, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Chrysanthemum

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Lily, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Lily

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1901/published 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat", by Arthur Wesley Dow

"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"

Arthur Wesley Dow · 1916

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Nara brocades, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Nara brocades

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Clover, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Clover

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1901/published 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Poppy, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Poppy

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Ink sketch, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Ink sketch

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Color scheme from Hiroshige, No. 1, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Color scheme from Hiroshige, No. 1

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nabby's Point, by Arthur Wesley Dow

Nabby's Point

Arthur Wesley Dow · ca. 1913

Public domainThe Met
Ipswich Prints: Fish leaping a waterfall, by Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922

Ipswich Prints: Fish leaping a waterfall

Arthur Wesley Dow, born Ipswich, MA 1857-died New York City 1922 · 1902

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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 52698 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-27 08:20 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.