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. 16 shown for “Edouard Blacque Bey” — 44 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:56 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.
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, by Charles-Théodore Frère

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder Abriss der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten: enthaltend für 1784 die Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America [General historical pocketbook, summarizing noteworthy world news of 1784, with a History of the Revolution in North America], by Matthias Christian Sprengel

Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder Abriss der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten: enthaltend für 1784 die Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America [General historical pocketbook, summarizing noteworthy world news of 1784, with a History of the Revolution in North America]

Matthias Christian Sprengel · 1784–87

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860", by Isidore Pils

Sketch for "Reception of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie by the Kabyle Leaders at Algiers on September 18, 1860"

Isidore Pils · ca. 1862–67

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey

Edouard Blacque Bey

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Edouard Blacque Bey and others

Edouard Blacque Bey and others

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

General Hashem, Antoine Chevalier, and Romero Gaita

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
C-Bass, by Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918

C-Bass

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edgar Allan Poe, by Edouard Manet, 1832 - 1883

Edgar Allan Poe

Edouard Manet, 1832 - 1883 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled (Female Head), by Edouard Fortini, Italian, b. Florence, 1862

Untitled (Female Head)

Edouard Fortini, Italian, b. Florence, 1862 · (c. 1890-1920)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pierre Jean Edouard Desor (1811-1882), by Bruder Freres

Portrait of Pierre Jean Edouard Desor (1811-1882)

Bruder Freres · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sea Shore, by Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876

Sea Shore

Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876 · 1811-1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sida sp.

Sida sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Dec 1992

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13599 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 21:56 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.