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 “Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Anna Longstreth” — 53 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:32 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.
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Anna Longstreth

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Anna Longstreth

Artist not stated in the record · 1870-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mary Anna Henry (1834-1903), by Unknown

Portrait of Mary Anna Henry (1834-1903)

Unknown · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Anna M. Stanton, by Horning's Photographic Rooms, American

Carte-de-visite portrait of Anna M. Stanton

Horning's Photographic Rooms, American · 1869-1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Monsieur Aublet, by Guillaume Voiriot

Portrait of Monsieur Aublet

Guillaume Voiriot · ca. 1782

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Caroline Henry (1839-1920) and Mary Anna Henry (1834-1903), by Unknown

Portrait of Caroline Henry (1839-1920) and Mary Anna Henry (1834-1903)

Unknown · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Mary Todd Lincoln, by Unidentified Artist

Mary Todd Lincoln

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Mary Todd Lincoln, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Mary Todd Lincoln

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Mary Todd Lincoln, by Unidentified Artist

Mary Todd Lincoln

Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Mary Todd Lincoln, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Mary Todd Lincoln

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner

Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Mary Todd Lincoln, by Unidentified Artist

Mary Todd Lincoln

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Ann Donaldson

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Ann Donaldson

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

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. 270 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 29 matched · 29 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 18:32 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.