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. 13 shown for “David Longworth” — 44 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:21 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.
The City of New York: Longworth's Explanatory Map and Plan, by David Longworth

The City of New York: Longworth's Explanatory Map and Plan

David Longworth · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Lee Roosevelt), by Moses Wainer Dykaar, born Vilna, Russia 1884-died New York City 1933

Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Lee Roosevelt)

Moses Wainer Dykaar, born Vilna, Russia 1884-died New York City 1933 · 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952

Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Howard Taft, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth, by Burr McIntosh, 1862 - 1942

William Howard Taft, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth

Burr McIntosh, 1862 - 1942 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth, by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952

Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth

Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952 · February 17, 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · c. 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Barnett McPhee Clinedinst, Jr., 12 Sep 1862 - 15 Mar 1953

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Barnett McPhee Clinedinst, Jr., 12 Sep 1862 - 15 Mar 1953 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Unidentified Artist

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Unidentified Artist · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · 1904

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 91964 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 23:21 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.