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. 24 shown for “Chester (Charles) Harding” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:27 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. Francis Stanton Blake, by Chester (Charles) Harding

Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1840–44

Public domainThe Met
Charles Carroll, by James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869

Charles Carroll

James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · 1830

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

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1828

Public domainThe Met
Charles Sprague, by Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836

Charles Sprague

Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836 · 1832

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

Eunice Harriet Brigham

Chester (Charles) Harding · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Chester Harding, by Unidentified Artist

Chester Harding

Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.

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
Daniel Boone, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Daniel Boone

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1820

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
Loammi Baldwin, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Loammi Baldwin

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1823

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

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Asher Brown Durand · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Story, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Joseph Story

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathanael Greene, by Charles Willson Peale

Nathanael Greene

Charles Willson Peale · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Harrison Gray Otis, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Harrison Gray Otis

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Charles Willson Peale

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1779–81

Public domainThe Met
Bushrod Washington, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Bushrod Washington

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Samuel Mifflin and Her Granddaughter Rebecca Mifflin Francis, by Charles Willson Peale

Mrs. Samuel Mifflin and Her Granddaughter Rebecca Mifflin Francis

Charles Willson Peale · 1777–80

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Webster, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Daniel Webster

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · c. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Henry Knox, by Charles Willson Peale

General Henry Knox

Charles Willson Peale · 1778

Public domainThe Met
James Madison, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

James Madison

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · c. 1829-30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arthur St. Clair, by Charles Willson Peale

Arthur St. Clair

Charles Willson Peale · 1780

Public domainThe Met
John Randolf of Roanoke, by Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

John Randolf of Roanoke

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866 · 1829-30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ennion Williams, by Charles Willson Peale

Ennion Williams

Charles Willson Peale · 1776

Public domainThe Met
Henry Clay

Henry Clay

Artist not stated in the record · 1842 or 1848

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. 485 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 137985 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 19:27 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.