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. 17 shown for “G. R. Lambert & Co.” — 45 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:39 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.
[Studio Portrait: Woman Seated Beside a Table, Singapore], by G. R. Lambert & Co.

[Studio Portrait: Woman Seated Beside a Table, Singapore]

G. R. Lambert & Co. · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Sambucus racemosa L.

Sambucus racemosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650), by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Public domainThe Met
Crassula lambertiana Schönland & Baker f.

Crassula lambertiana Schönland & Baker f.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br.

Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1959

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2322 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 19:39 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.