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 “Cabinet card of Laura Singleton” — 43 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 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.
The Toilet of Bathsheba, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Laura Singleton

Cabinet card of Laura Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · 1880s-1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio], by Henry Carlton Wilber

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio]

Henry Carlton Wilber · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Laura E. Singleton

Cabinet card of Laura E. Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend

Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Laura Townsend

Cabinet card of Laura Townsend

Artist not stated in the record · 1894-1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venie and Laura Clancey, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Venie and Laura Clancey

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laura Bridgman, by Charles F. Conly, 1846 - 1892

Laura Bridgman

Charles F. Conly, 1846 - 1892 · c. 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Otho Robards Singleton (1814-1889), by Dillon, Luke C

Portrait of Otho Robards Singleton (1814-1889)

Dillon, Luke C · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress, by Winslow Homer, 24 Feb 1836 - 29 Sep 1910

The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress

Winslow Homer, 24 Feb 1836 - 29 Sep 1910 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite of W. H. Singleton

Carte-de-visite of W. H. Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · late 1870-early 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of Professor W. H. Singleton

Photograph of Professor W. H. Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1909

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2880376 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-04 05:32 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.