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 “E. Pattison” — 45 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:31 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.
Shoes, by E. Pattison

Shoes

E. Pattison · 1806–15

Public domainThe Met
Poa annua L.

Poa annua L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/11/38

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco, by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H. Raven

Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P.H. Raven

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of La Crescenza, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

View of La Crescenza

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1648–50

Public domainThe Met
Macaranga aleuritoides F. Muell.

Macaranga aleuritoides F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sunrise, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Sunrise

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1646–47

Public domainThe Met
Granville Sharpe Pattison, by Richard James Lane, 1800 - 1872

Granville Sharpe Pattison

Richard James Lane, 1800 - 1872 · c. 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ford, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Ford

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1636

Public domainThe Met
Granville Sharpe Pattison, by John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897

Granville Sharpe Pattison

John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · c. 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pometia pinnata J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Pometia pinnata J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gunnera macrophylla Blume

Gunnera macrophylla Blume

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leea guineensis G. Don

Leea guineensis G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Homalomena melanesica A. Hay

Homalomena melanesica A. Hay

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1975 or 7 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Syzygium sp.

Syzygium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Nov 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Homalomena robusta Engl. & K. Krause

Homalomena robusta Engl. & K. Krause

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medical Faculty of the University of New York, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Medical Faculty of the University of New York

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1846

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. 1105501 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 2026-09-03 02:31 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.