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. 22 shown for “Charles Fraser” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:22 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.
Mrs. Jean Pierre Barre, by Charles Fraser

Mrs. Jean Pierre Barre

Charles Fraser · 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Henry Trescot, by Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Henry Trescot

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rev. Christopher Edwards Gadsden, by Charles Fraser

Rev. Christopher Edwards Gadsden

Charles Fraser · 1819

Public domainThe Met
David Ramsay, by Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860

David Ramsay

Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860 · c. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powell Macrae, by Charles Fraser

Powell Macrae

Charles Fraser · 1833

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Portrait of a Gentleman

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson, by Charles Fraser

Isaac O'Brien L. McPherson

Charles Fraser · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Dr. Joseph Glover, by Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Dr. Joseph Glover

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colonel James Elliott McPherson, by Charles Fraser

Colonel James Elliott McPherson

Charles Fraser · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Hampton, by Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Harriet Hampton

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dr. Francis Kinloch Huger, by Charles Fraser

Dr. Francis Kinloch Huger

Charles Fraser · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Judge Thomas Waties, by Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Judge Thomas Waties

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powell MacRae, by Henry Colton Shumway

Powell MacRae

Henry Colton Shumway · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Joseph W. Faber, by Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Joseph W. Faber

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, by William Fraser Garden

St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire

William Fraser Garden · 1895

Public domainThe Met
Dalea aurea Nutt. & Fraser

Dalea aurea Nutt. & Fraser

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman

Portrait of a Gentleman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Amorpha nana C. Fraser

Amorpha nana C. Fraser

Artist not stated in the record · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843), by John Hoppner

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)

John Hoppner

Public domainThe Met
Dalea aurea Nutt. & Fraser

Dalea aurea Nutt. & Fraser

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Jean Frémin

Snuffbox

Jean Frémin · 1755–56

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832), by Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832)

Thomas Gainsborough

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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 134040 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:22 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.