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 “Eleanor Parke Custis” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:48 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.
Portrait of Martha Washington, by Eleanor Parke Custis

Portrait of Martha Washington

Eleanor Parke Custis · ca. 1798

Public domainThe Met
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of George Washington, by Eleanor Parke Custis

Portrait of George Washington

Eleanor Parke Custis · ca. 1798

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, by Unidentified Artist

Mrs. Lawrence Lewis

Unidentified Artist · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Bowl, by Christian Wiltberger

Sugar Bowl

Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
The Washington Family, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

The Washington Family

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot, by Christian Wiltberger

Teapot

Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
The Washington Family, by Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817

The Washington Family

Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Christian Wiltberger

Coffeepot

Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
George Washington and Family, by Unidentified Artist

George Washington and Family

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Creamer, by Christian Wiltberger

Creamer

Christian Wiltberger · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Washington and His Family, by William Sartain, born Philadelphia, PA 1843-died New York City 1924

Washington and His Family

William Sartain, born Philadelphia, PA 1843-died New York City 1924 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Washington Family: George Washington, His Lady, and her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis–George Washington, Son Epouse, et Ses Deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis, by Edward Savage

The Washington Family: George Washington, His Lady, and her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis–George Washington, Son Epouse, et Ses Deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis

Edward Savage · March 10, 1798

Public domainThe Met
The Washington Family, by Edward Savage, born Princeton, MA 1761-died Princeton, MA 1817

The Washington Family

Edward Savage, born Princeton, MA 1761-died Princeton, MA 1817 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Home of Washington, by Thomas Oldham Barlow

The Home of Washington

Thomas Oldham Barlow · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Washington & Family by Kellogg & Bulkeley after Edward Savage, by Kellogg & Bulkeley

Washington & Family by Kellogg & Bulkeley after Edward Savage

Kellogg & Bulkeley · ca 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana, by William Henry Rinehart

Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana

William Henry Rinehart · 1870; carved 1874

Public domainThe Met
Washington Family, by H. Schile and Company

Washington Family

H. Schile and Company · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle, lamp, and table, by Simon Pantin I

Teakettle, lamp, and table

Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
Washington Family by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg after Edward Savage, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

Washington Family by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg after Edward Savage

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · 1843-1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer) and Baby Eleanor, by Charles Willson Peale

Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer) and Baby Eleanor

Charles Willson Peale · 1790

Public domainThe Met
The Washington Family by Alfred M. Hoffy after Edward Savage, by Hoffy, Alfred M.

The Washington Family by Alfred M. Hoffy after Edward Savage

Hoffy, Alfred M. · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon

Artist not stated in the record · after 1126

Public domainThe Met
Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784, by Tholey, Charles P.

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784

Tholey, Charles P. · 1868

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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 142182 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 2026-09-04 21:48 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.