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. 22 shown for “Edmond Bacot” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:20 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.
Saint-Maclou, Rouen, by Edmond Bacot

Saint-Maclou, Rouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Edmond Méance, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Edmond Méance

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Château de Martainville, by Edmond Bacot

Château de Martainville

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Edmond Paillet, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Edmond Paillet

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue de l'Odon, by Edmond Bacot

Vue de l'Odon

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Louis Edmond Fortier, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Louis Edmond Fortier

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tourelle du Palais de Justice, Rouen, by Edmond Bacot

Tourelle du Palais de Justice, Rouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Edmond Butler, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Edmond Butler

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abside de Saint-Pierre, Caen, by Edmond Bacot

Abside de Saint-Pierre, Caen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Giraffe, by Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918

Giraffe

Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abbaye aux Dames et Hospice, Caen, by Edmond Bacot

Abbaye aux Dames et Hospice, Caen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Edmond Charles Clinton Genet, by John Elliott, born Lincolnshire, England 1859-died Charleston, SC 1925

Edmond Charles Clinton Genet

John Elliott, born Lincolnshire, England 1859-died Charleston, SC 1925 · ca. 1917-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portail de Saint-Ouen, Rouen, by Edmond Bacot

Portail de Saint-Ouen, Rouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
William Horner and William Gibson, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

William Horner and William Gibson

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment du Palais de Justice, Rouen, by Edmond Bacot

Fragment du Palais de Justice, Rouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds

Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rue des Petits Murs, Caen, by Edmond Bacot

Rue des Petits Murs, Caen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds

Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vue générale de Saint-Ouen, by Edmond Bacot

Vue générale de Saint-Ouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds

Solanum americanum var. nodiflorum (Jacq.) Edmonds

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint-Georges de Boscherville, près Rouen, by Edmond Bacot

Saint-Georges de Boscherville, près Rouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen, by Edmond Bacot

Hôtel du Bourgtheroulde, Rouen

Edmond Bacot · 1852–54

Public domainThe Met
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 437 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 01:20 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.