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 “Charles D. Fredricks & Co” — 43 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:29 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.
[Unidentified Man], by Charles DeForest Fredricks

[Unidentified Man]

Charles DeForest Fredricks · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite (1816-1888), by Charles D. Fredricks & Co

Portrait of Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite (1816-1888)

Charles D. Fredricks & Co · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Double Portrait of Man Facing Self from Both Sides of a Desk], by Charles DeForest Fredricks

[Double Portrait of Man Facing Self from Both Sides of a Desk]

Charles DeForest Fredricks · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-1889), by Charles D. Fredricks & Co

Portrait of Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-1889)

Charles D. Fredricks & Co · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Double Portrait of Man Seated and Standing at a Desk], by Charles DeForest Fredricks

[Double Portrait of Man Seated and Standing at a Desk]

Charles DeForest Fredricks · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Charles D. Fredricks, by Harroun & Bierstadt, active 1880s

Charles D. Fredricks

Harroun & Bierstadt, active 1880s · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles D. Fredricks, by Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894

Charles D. Fredricks

Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips

Carte-de-visite portrait of Wendell Phillips

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgy Willets

Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgy Willets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Azolla caroliniana Willd.

Azolla caroliniana Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with lid

Box with lid

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milly Finch, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Milly Finch

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1883-1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Maitreya Buddha

Standing Maitreya Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plagiomnium cuspidatum (Hedw.) T.J. Kop.

Plagiomnium cuspidatum (Hedw.) T.J. Kop.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/5/25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror

Mirror

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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. 609 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 03:29 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.