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 “George Graham, active 1786 - 1813” — 45 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 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.
Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal, by John Doyle

Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal

John Doyle · May 14, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Hull

Isaac Hull

Artist not stated in the record · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taking Up a Fare – "All the World's A Stage", by John Doyle

Taking Up a Fare – "All the World's A Stage"

John Doyle · May 24, 1837

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Enchanted Island, Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1), by Benjamin Smith

The Enchanted Island, Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1)

Benjamin Smith · originally published 1797; reissued 1852

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Hull, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Isaac Hull

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris

Thomas Rowlandson · December 4, 1813

Public domainThe Met
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827), by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Deborah Sampson (1760-1827)

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris

Thomas Rowlandson · December 4, 1813

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Adams, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Samuel Adams

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Adams, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Samuel Adams

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Hamilton, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Alexander Hamilton

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1800-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

John Adams

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Atkins And Nightingale

George Washington

Atkins And Nightingale · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthony Wayne, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Anthony Wayne

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Share: Salem Iron Factory, by George Graham, active 1797-1813

Share: Salem Iron Factory

George Graham, active 1797-1813 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Dwight Dana, by Rudolf Hoffmann, active 1840s - 1850s

James Dwight Dana

Rudolf Hoffmann, active 1840s - 1850s · 1857

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. 238663 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 21:08 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.