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 “Daniel John Pound” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:25 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.
Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World", by Daniel John Pound

Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World"

Daniel John Pound · 1859

Public domainThe Met
John Pounds by William Sharp and Ephraim Bouve, by Sharp, William

John Pounds by William Sharp and Ephraim Bouve

Sharp, William · 1843-1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Everett Millais, Esq., A.R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World", by Daniel John Pound

John Everett Millais, Esq., A.R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World"

Daniel John Pound · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Leather letter carrier satchel

Leather letter carrier satchel

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, by John Singleton Copley

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

John Singleton Copley · 1771

Public domainThe Met
Lecanora epibryon (Ach.) Ach.

Lecanora epibryon (Ach.) Ach.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia, by John Targee

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia

John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Public domainThe Met
Casuarina muelleriana Miq.

Casuarina muelleriana Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Mar 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Box, by John Coney

Sugar Box

John Coney · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Potentilla viridescens Rydb.

Potentilla viridescens Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia californica Sull.

Grimmia californica Sull.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by John Bennett

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia platyphylla Mitt.

Grimmia platyphylla Mitt.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eight-Day Tall Case Clock with Musical Movement, by Daniel Burnap

Eight-Day Tall Case Clock with Musical Movement

Daniel Burnap · 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
Dicranum fragilifolium Lindb.

Dicranum fragilifolium Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained glass window, by Daniel Cottier

Stained glass window

Daniel Cottier · ca. 1877–80

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia anodon Bruch & Schimp.

Grimmia anodon Bruch & Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia longirostris Hook.

Grimmia longirostris Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Classical Landscape with Roma Figures, by John Wootton

Classical Landscape with Roma Figures

John Wootton · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Dicranum elongatum Schleich. ex Schwägr.

Dicranum elongatum Schleich. ex Schwägr.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623), by Jacob Halder

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)

Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

Public domainThe Met
John Daniel Imboden, by Unidentified Artist

John Daniel Imboden

Unidentified Artist · c. 1863

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. 825 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. 279566 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 04:25 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.