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. 20 shown for “Charles Conway” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:12 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.
Winter, by Charles Conway

Winter

Charles Conway · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Dinomischus isolatus Conway Morris

Dinomischus isolatus Conway Morris

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake, by Chester (Charles) Harding

Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1840–44

Public domainThe Met
[Echo Lake, North Conway, Franconia, White Mountains], by Unidentified

[Echo Lake, North Conway, Franconia, White Mountains]

Unidentified · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stephen Van Rensselaer, by Chester (Charles) Harding

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1828

Public domainThe Met
Carex folliculata L.

Carex folliculata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eunice Harriet Brigham, by Chester (Charles) Harding

Eunice Harriet Brigham

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Insolicorypha psygma Conway Morris

Insolicorypha psygma Conway Morris

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge, by Chester (Charles) Harding

Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1827

Public domainThe Met
North Conway and White Mountain Scenery: Jackson's Fall--Wildwood Cascade--New Hampshire, by N. W. Pease, born Cornish, ME 1836-died 1918

North Conway and White Mountain Scenery: Jackson's Fall--Wildwood Cascade--New Hampshire

N. W. Pease, born Cornish, ME 1836-died 1918 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Carrol of Carrolton, by Asher Brown Durand

Charles Carrol of Carrolton

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
North Conway and White Mountain Scenery: Silver Cascade, near view, in White Notch, by N. W. Pease, born Cornish, ME 1836-died 1918

North Conway and White Mountain Scenery: Silver Cascade, near view, in White Notch

N. W. Pease, born Cornish, ME 1836-died 1918 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, by Asher Brown Durand

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Public domainThe Met
North Conway and White Mountain Scenery: Pulpit Rock--looking up--White Mountain Notch, New Hampshire, by N. W. Pease, born Cornish, ME 1836-died 1918

North Conway and White Mountain Scenery: Pulpit Rock--looking up--White Mountain Notch, New Hampshire

N. W. Pease, born Cornish, ME 1836-died 1918 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel, by Philippe Laurent Roland

Panel

Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Cornelius Conway Felton, by Unidentified Artist

Cornelius Conway Felton

Unidentified Artist · c. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, by Jean Antoine Houdon

Winter

Jean Antoine Houdon · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Angelica and Medoro, by François Boucher

Angelica and Medoro

François Boucher · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby, by George Romney

Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby

George Romney · 1776–78

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child in an Apse, by Robert Campin

Virgin and Child in an Apse

Robert Campin

Public domainThe Met
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 128577 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 15:12 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.