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 “George Goulding Co.” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:38 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.
Clarinet in C, by George Goulding Co.

Clarinet in C

George Goulding Co. · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould

Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in A, by George Goulding Co.

Clarinet in A

George Goulding Co. · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould var. dichotomum

Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould var. dichotomum

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in B-flat, by George Goulding Co.

Clarinet in B-flat

George Goulding Co. · 1804–08

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural woodwork and paneling, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Architectural woodwork and paneling

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri (Nash) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri (Nash) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mower, by Georges Seurat

The Mower

Georges Seurat · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium scoparium (Lam.) Gould

Dichanthelium scoparium (Lam.) Gould

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush, by Smith & Wesson

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush

Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould var. sphaerocarpon

Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould var. sphaerocarpon

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium aciculare (Desv. ex Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium aciculare (Desv. ex Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by James Peale

George Washington

James Peale · 1782

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium clandestinum (L.) Gould

Dichanthelium clandestinum (L.) Gould

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Cabinet

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Side chair

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould var. dichotomum

Dichanthelium dichotomum (L.) Gould var. dichotomum

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1892

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. 2249 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 419124 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 07:38 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.