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. 12 shown for “Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912” — 16 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:26 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.
Portrait of Old Woman with Bow, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Portrait of Old Woman with Bow

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Nude, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Standing Nude

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Female Nude, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Standing Female Nude

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Nude with Back Turned, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Female Nude with Back Turned

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph and Faun, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Nymph and Faun

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Mr. Fenn, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Head of Mr. Fenn

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comedy, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Comedy

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchic Dancer, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Bacchic Dancer

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancing Male Figure, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Dancing Male Figure

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Group, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Design for a Group

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · ca. 1907-1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining Female Nude, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Reclining Female Nude

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baby Joe, by Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912

Baby Joe

Emily Clayton Bishop, born Smithsburg, MD 1883-died Smithsburg, MD 1912 · 1909

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16 matched · 16 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 06:26 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.