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 “Edward S. Dodge” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:26 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.
Edward S. Dodge, by John Wood Dodge

Edward S. Dodge

John Wood Dodge · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Empidonax wrightii

Empidonax wrightii

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Wood Dodge, by Edward S. Dodge

John Wood Dodge

Edward S. Dodge · ca. 1836–37

Public domainThe Met
Latzelia antarctica C.W. Dodge

Latzelia antarctica C.W. Dodge

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Edward S. Dodge

Portrait of a Gentleman

Edward S. Dodge · 1840–45

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia pontica

Artemisia pontica

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Edward S. Dodge

Portrait of a Gentleman

Edward S. Dodge · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. Gray

Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Henry Tallmadge, by Edward S. Dodge

William Henry Tallmadge

Edward S. Dodge · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia frigida Willd.

Artemisia frigida Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-chambered bottle, by Wari artist(s)

Double-chambered bottle

Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia pontica

Artemisia pontica

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia frigida Willd.

Artemisia frigida Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edward and Sarah Rutter, by Joshua Johnson

Edward and Sarah Rutter

Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Mentha canadensis L.

Mentha canadensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Sauce Tureen, by Edward Lownes

Covered Sauce Tureen

Edward Lownes · ca. 1817

Public domainThe Met
Papaver rhoeas L.

Papaver rhoeas L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panther and Cubs, by Edward Kemeys

Panther and Cubs

Edward Kemeys · ca. 1878; cast 1907

Public domainThe Met
Erysimum repandum L.

Erysimum repandum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Hunt, by Edward Kemeys

Still Hunt

Edward Kemeys · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Erysimum repandum L.

Erysimum repandum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1902

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

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Conringia orientalis (L.) C. Presl

Conringia orientalis (L.) C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1917

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. 6901 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 935424 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-04 01:26 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.