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. 14 shown for “Clark, Coit and Cargill” — 42 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.
Chandelier, by Clark, Coit and Cargill

Chandelier

Clark, Coit and Cargill · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/8/2

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Peaches and Grapes, by Auguste Renoir

Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

Auguste Renoir · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Oct 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Coit Gilman, by Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916

Daniel Coit Gilman

Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Augustus Coit, by John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893

Henry Augustus Coit

John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theatre bill, by Torii Kiyohiro (active ca. 1750-1765)

Theatre bill

Torii Kiyohiro (active ca. 1750-1765) · 1745-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A woman's figure, by Toyokuni II (1777-1835)

A woman's figure

Toyokuni II (1777-1835) · 1776-1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Street scene: a procession, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861)

Street scene: a procession

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861) · 1797-1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych; (recto) Two groups of women's figures; (verso) Two designs of warriors, by Shiko (ca. 1773-1805)

Diptych; (recto) Two groups of women's figures; (verso) Two designs of warriors

Shiko (ca. 1773-1805) · 1768-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with shell-gatherers, by Sadatora Shunsen (active ca. 1800-1835)

Landscape with shell-gatherers

Sadatora Shunsen (active ca. 1800-1835) · 1795-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Group of Geisha, by Tsukioka Eizan

A Group of Geisha

Tsukioka Eizan · 1795-1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908), by Morse, George Daniels 1835-

Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908)

Morse, George Daniels 1835- · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodblock print: four designs of warriors; reverse: group of fans and individual signature and seals, by Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 (1807-1873)

Woodblock print: four designs of warriors; reverse: group of fans and individual signature and seals

Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 (1807-1873) · 1807-1873

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1520229 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 04:24 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.