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 “E. Webb's Union Gallery” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:42 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.
[Telegrapher], by E. Webb's Union Gallery

[Telegrapher]

E. Webb's Union Gallery · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Meade and his Generals, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1840 - 1882

Meade and his Generals

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1840 - 1882 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon, by Edward Webb

Spoon

Edward Webb · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · October 3, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Third-Class Carriage, by Honoré Daumier

The Third-Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier · 1864

Public domainThe Met
George W. Morrell

George W. Morrell

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Deerhound, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

A Deerhound

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · 1826

Public domainThe Met
Ada and Emma Webb

Ada and Emma Webb

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dream of Arcadia, by James Smillie

Dream of Arcadia

James Smillie · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Ada and Emma Webb

Ada and Emma Webb

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse, by Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona

Mercury Changes Aglauros to Stone, from the Story of Mercury and Herse

Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Alfred Thomas Torbert, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Alfred Thomas Torbert

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Image Breaker, by Alfred Jones

The Image Breaker

Alfred Jones · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Villosa lienosa

Villosa lienosa

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Florinda, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Florinda

Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Villosa villosa

Villosa villosa

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Sick, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Christ Healing the Sick

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Emma Webb

Emma Webb

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Rake, by Jean-François Millet

Woman with a Rake

Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57

Public domainThe Met
Ada Webb

Ada Webb

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Emma Webb

Emma Webb

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River, by James Deane

Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River

James Deane · published 1861

Public domainThe Met
Emma Webb

Emma Webb

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 187 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1178815 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 2026-09-06 02:42 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.