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. 19 shown for “Durkee, George B.” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:24 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.
George Moore (1852–1933), by Edouard Manet

George Moore (1852–1933)

Edouard Manet · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Bookbinding Machine, by Durkee, George B.

Patent Model of a Bookbinding Machine

Durkee, George B. · ca 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia leucobracteatus Durkee

Ruellia leucobracteatus Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Justicia crenata (Leonard) Durkee

Justicia crenata (Leonard) Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Justicia panamensis Durkee

Justicia panamensis Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune-Teller, by Georges de La Tour

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Public domainThe Met
Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Magdalen, by Georges de La Tour

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anisacanthus nicaraguensis Durkee

Anisacanthus nicaraguensis Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Odontonema microphyllum Durkee

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pavonia dasypetala Turcz.

Pavonia dasypetala Turcz.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruellia inundata Kunth

Ruellia inundata Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliconia metallica Planch. & Linden ex Hook.

Heliconia metallica Planch. & Linden ex Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1969

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. 5403 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 652442 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 17:24 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.