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 “Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:45 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.
Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series : Kincobs, Nos. 401 to 458, by John Forbes Watson

Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series : Kincobs, Nos. 401 to 458

John Forbes Watson · 1873–80

Public domainThe Met
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company print of The Colonel performed by actor Eric Bayley, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company print of The Colonel performed by actor Eric Bayley

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Chinese Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
The Colonel! Eric Bayley's The Colonel Comedy Company by Joseph E. Baker and published by Forbes Lithographic Manufacturing Company, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

The Colonel! Eric Bayley's The Colonel Comedy Company by Joseph E. Baker and published by Forbes Lithographic Manufacturing Company

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Western Dugout, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Western Dugout, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Mr. Gus Williams the American Star Comique by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

Mr. Gus Williams the American Star Comique by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spanish House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Spanish House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
"A Child of the State" by George Hoey, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

"A Child of the State" by George Hoey

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · ca 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mormon Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Mormon Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
The Hanlons in their Laughable Parisian Absurdity Le Voyage En Suisse publisher by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company and probably created by Joseph E. Baker, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

The Hanlons in their Laughable Parisian Absurdity Le Voyage En Suisse publisher by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company and probably created by Joseph E. Baker

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
American Cottage Home, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

American Cottage Home, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Florence, by Baker, Joseph E.

Florence

Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brazilian Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Brazilian Residence, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company, by Baker, Joseph E.

Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company

Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samoan Homestead, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Samoan Homestead, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
A Hunt Above The Timber Line, by Bradlee Whidden

A Hunt Above The Timber Line

Bradlee Whidden · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House in the Black Sea, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

House in the Black Sea, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Killing Salmon, by Bradlee Whidden

Killing Salmon

Bradlee Whidden · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laplanders House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Laplanders House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Fly-Fishing for Black Bass, by Bradlee Whidden

Fly-Fishing for Black Bass

Bradlee Whidden · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arab House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

Arab House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Trout Fishing, by Bradlee Whidden

Trout Fishing

Bradlee Whidden · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
American Farm House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, by The Giles Company

American Farm House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

The Giles Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Stalking the Wapiti, by Bradlee Whidden

Stalking the Wapiti

Bradlee Whidden · 1890

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. 634 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 284663 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 07:45 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.