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 “Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:30 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 Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, by Alfred Sisley

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Alfred Sisley · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Cathedral, Panama, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Cathedral, Panama

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solola, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Solola, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solola, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Solola, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antigua de Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Antigua de Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amapala, Honduras, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Amapala, Honduras

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cathedral, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Cathedral, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cerro del Carmen--Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Cerro del Carmen--Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corinto, Nicaragua, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Corinto, Nicaragua

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Public Market, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Public Market, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffee Plantation at Las Nubes, Guatemala, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Coffee Plantation at Las Nubes, Guatemala

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruins of the Convent of Las Monjas, Panama, by Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904

Ruins of the Convent of Las Monjas, Panama

Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904 · 1875, published 1877

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 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. 103 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 21:30 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.