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.B. and E.C. Kellogg” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:28 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.
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Prodigal Son Returned to His Father by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
The Good Tree or Hieroglyphics of a Christian by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by Kellogg, E.B. and E.C.

The Good Tree or Hieroglyphics of a Christian by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

Kellogg, E.B. and E.C. · ca 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Mantle or Apron

Panel from a Mantle or Apron

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
To the Memory of by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

To the Memory of by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy, by Bernard Salomon

The Abduction of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son in Misery by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Prodigal Son in Misery by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catapult Projectile from Montfort (Starkenberg) Castle

Catapult Projectile from Montfort (Starkenberg) Castle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Horn

Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Capture of Andre 1780 by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

Capture of Andre 1780 by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Horn

Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1749

Public domainThe Met
Washington Family by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg after Edward Savage, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

Washington Family by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg after Edward Savage

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · 1843-1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
James Madison, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

James Madison

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

Landscapes

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
James Monroe, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

James Monroe

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Fan Qi

Landscapes

Fan Qi · dated 1646

Public domainThe Met
John Camel Heenan, (Benicia Boy.) by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, circa 1859, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

John Camel Heenan, (Benicia Boy.) by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, circa 1859

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes painted for Yuweng, by Fan Qi

Landscapes painted for Yuweng

Fan Qi · dated 1673

Public domainThe Met
Puppies, by Kelloggs & Thayer

Puppies

Kelloggs & Thayer · 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. 3981 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 1478888 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-01 11:28 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.