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. 17 shown for “Civil war shelter tent half owned by George Thompson Garrison” — 45 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:09 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Civil war shelter tent half owned by George Thompson Garrison

Civil war shelter tent half owned by George Thompson Garrison

Artist not stated in the record · circa 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Traveling trunk used by George Thompson Garrison in the Civil War

Traveling trunk used by George Thompson Garrison in the Civil War

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Antietam Battlefield], by Alexander Gardner

[Antietam Battlefield]

Alexander Gardner · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Pocketwatch inscribed to William Lloyd Garrison from George Thompson

Pocketwatch inscribed to William Lloyd Garrison from George Thompson

Artist not stated in the record · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Notebook of lists and accounts made by George T. Garrison, by George Thompson Garrison, American, 1836 - 1904

Notebook of lists and accounts made by George T. Garrison

George Thompson Garrison, American, 1836 - 1904 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison

Daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of members of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry

Photograph of members of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry

Artist not stated in the record · 1863-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Collection box of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society owned by Garrison family, by Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society, American, 1833 - 1850s

Collection box of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society owned by Garrison family

Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society, American, 1833 - 1850s · 1830s - 1850s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite album of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, by John Ritchie, American, 1836 - 1919

Carte-de-visite album of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

John Ritchie, American, 1836 - 1919 · ca.1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Civil War Union patriotic cover

Civil War Union patriotic cover

Artist not stated in the record · October 2, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Civil War Union patriotic cover

Civil War Union patriotic cover

Artist not stated in the record · October 7, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mameluke sword presented to Capt. George Garrison by the 55th Massachusetts

Mameluke sword presented to Capt. George Garrison by the 55th Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Custer, by William Illingworth, 1844 - 1893

George Custer

William Illingworth, 1844 - 1893 · 1874

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 733726 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 19:09 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.