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 “Freemason's Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"” — 62 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:55 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.
Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, by Thomas Rowlandson

Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street

Thomas Rowlandson · October 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Freemason's Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Freemason's Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, by Thomas Rowlandson

Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street

Thomas Rowlandson · October 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Westminster Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Westminster Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, by Thomas Rowlandson

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House

Thomas Rowlandson · January 1, 1809

Public domainThe Met
The Hall, Blue Coat School, from "Ackermann's Repository"

The Hall, Blue Coat School, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining Hall, Asylum, by Thomas Rowlandson

Dining Hall, Asylum

Thomas Rowlandson · February 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hall, Blue Coat School, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Hall, Blue Coat School

Thomas Rowlandson · March 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Session House, Clerkenwell, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Session House, Clerkenwell, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Great Hall, Bank of England, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Great Hall, Bank of England

Thomas Rowlandson · February 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
The Great Hall, Bank of England, from "Ackermann's Repository"

The Great Hall, Bank of England, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Tower, by Thomas Rowlandson

View of the Tower

Thomas Rowlandson · October 1, 1809

Public domainThe Met
Dining Hall, Asylum, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Dining Hall, Asylum, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Greenwich Hospital, The Painted Hall, by Thomas Rowlandson

Greenwich Hospital, The Painted Hall

Thomas Rowlandson · January 1, 1810

Public domainThe Met
Heralds College, The Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Heralds College, The Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
South Sea House, Dividend Hall, by Thomas Rowlandson

South Sea House, Dividend Hall

Thomas Rowlandson · February 1, 1810

Public domainThe Met
Leaden Hall Market, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Leaden Hall Market, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court of Kings Bench, Westminster Hall, by Thomas Rowlandson

Court of Kings Bench, Westminster Hall

Thomas Rowlandson · 1808

Public domainThe Met
South Sea House Dividend Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

South Sea House Dividend Hall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court of Exchequer, Westminster Hall, by Thomas Rowlandson

Court of Exchequer, Westminster Hall

Thomas Rowlandson · 1808

Public domainThe Met
The Hall and Staircase, British Museum, from "Ackermann's Repository"

The Hall and Staircase, British Museum, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court of Common Pleas, Westminster Hall, by Thomas Rowlandson

Court of Common Pleas, Westminster Hall

Thomas Rowlandson · June 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
View of Westminster Hall and Bridge, from "Ackermann's Repository"

View of Westminster Hall and Bridge, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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. 436637 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 07:55 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.