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. 14 shown for “Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century” — 64 records examined, 50 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 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.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Gathering Berries, by Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century

Gathering Berries

Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · July 11, 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?", by Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century

Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?"

Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · June 13, 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Longrifle, by Jacob Kuntz

Flintlock Longrifle

Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Camping Out in the Adirondack Mountains, by Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century

Camping Out in the Adirondack Mountains

Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · November 7, 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Waiting for a Bite, from Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1874, p. 693, by Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century

Waiting for a Bite, from Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1874, p. 693

Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · August 22, 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snap-the-Whip, by Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century

Snap-the-Whip

Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century · September 20, 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meta-koosega, by John T. Bowen, 1801 - c. 1856

Meta-koosega

John T. Bowen, 1801 - c. 1856 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pet-a-le-shar-ro, by Unidentified Artist

Pet-a-le-shar-ro

Unidentified Artist · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wesh-cubb, by John T. Bowen, 1801 - c. 1856

Wesh-cubb

John T. Bowen, 1801 - c. 1856 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Mifflin, by Edward Wellmore, active 19th century

Thomas Mifflin

Edward Wellmore, active 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tish-co-han, by Unidentified Artist

Tish-co-han

Unidentified Artist · 1837

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. 461 matched · 24 examined · 20 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. 1142796 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 2026-08-27 08:37 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.