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 Winslow” — 64 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:46 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.
Plate, by Edward Winslow

Plate

Edward Winslow · ca. 1705

Public domainThe Met
Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland), by Unidentified Artist

Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland)

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII, by John Townsend Trowbridge

Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII

John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867

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
Gathering Berries, by Edward Lagarde, American, 19th century

Gathering Berries

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.

Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Vitis arizonica Engelm.

Vitis arizonica Engelm.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tamarix chinensis Lour.

Tamarix chinensis Lour.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allenrolfea occidentalis (S. Watson) Kuntze

Allenrolfea occidentalis (S. Watson) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix linearifolia E.L. Wolf

Salix linearifolia E.L. Wolf

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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
Winslow Homer, by Thomas A. Gray, active 1863

Winslow Homer

Thomas A. Gray, active 1863 · 1863

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. 32 matched · 24 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 129305 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 05:46 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.