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. 13 shown for “Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818” — 41 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:25 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.
TRANSYLVANIA/ UNIVERSITY/ LEXINGTON/ E.W.&S./ CELTIC CHINA, by Enoch Wood & Sons

TRANSYLVANIA/ UNIVERSITY/ LEXINGTON/ E.W.&S./ CELTIC CHINA

Enoch Wood & Sons · ca. 1828–ca. 1846

Public domainThe Met
Edward Shippen, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818

Edward Shippen

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Bloomfield, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818

Joseph Bloomfield

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aaron Burr, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818

Aaron Burr

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818

Thomas Jefferson

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818

George Washington

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning Piece for George Washington, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1803-1818

Mourning Piece for George Washington

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1803-1818 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Frontispiece

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Maison Construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

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
Joel Barlow, by Le Barbier, active c. 1801

Joel Barlow

Le Barbier, active c. 1801 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Vüe du pavillon de Bagatelle, sis sur le bord de la seine, attenant le Bois de Boulogne Bati par Belanger, en 54 jours. Année 1778

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan general et coupe d’une Maison construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect, by François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818

Plan general et coupe d’une Maison construite dans l’Enclos du Couvent des Carmelites près Beauvais par Mr. Belanger Architect

François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818 · 1812

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 785584 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-01 21:25 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.