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. 19 shown for “Charles F. Conly, 1846 - 1892” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:12 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.
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Laura Bridgman, by Charles F. Conly, 1846 - 1892

Laura Bridgman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Helen Hunt Jackson, by Charles F. Conly, 1846 - 1892

Helen Hunt Jackson

Charles F. Conly, 1846 - 1892 · c. 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Acropora cytherea

Acropora cytherea

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Charles F. Kalkman, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles F. Kalkman

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome, by François Marius Granet

The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome

François Marius Granet · 1814–15

Public domainThe Met
J. Becquet, Sculptor, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

J. Becquet, Sculptor

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
The Little Venice, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

The Little Venice

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1879-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife, by Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892

Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife

Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife, by Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892

Sir Walter Raleigh Parting with His Wife

Charles Burt, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1823-died New York City 1892 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Venice, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

The Little Venice

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1879-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Forge, Liverpool, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

The Little Forge, Liverpool

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Little Chelsea (Memorial), by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Little Chelsea (Memorial)

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
From Billingsgate, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

From Billingsgate

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1878

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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 824220 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 07:12 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.