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. 16 shown for “Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897” — 49 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:59 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.
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, by Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve, by Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Master of the Saint Godelieve Legend

Public domainThe Met
"Buffalo Bill" Cody, by Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897

"Buffalo Bill" Cody

Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897 · c. 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue, by Edouard Manet

Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue

Edouard Manet · 1880

Public domainThe Met
"Buffalo Bill" Cody, by Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897

"Buffalo Bill" Cody

Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897 · c. 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
John Marshall Harlan, by Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897

John Marshall Harlan

Charles D. Mosher, 1829 - 1897 · c. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Juncoides piperi Coville in Piper

Juncoides piperi Coville in Piper

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), by Unknown

Portrait of Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927)

Unknown · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Begonia palmata D. Don

Begonia palmata D. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frescoes from the Villa Stati-Mattei, by Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Frescoes from the Villa Stati-Mattei

Baldassarre Tommaso Peruzzi

Public domainThe Met
Abduction of a Sabine Woman, by Giambologna

Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 883678 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 16:59 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.