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. 13 shown for “George Henry Durrie, 6 Jun 1820 - 15 Oct 1863” — 41 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:07 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.
A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill, by James Gillray

A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill

James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Public domainThe Met
George Henry Durrie Self-Portrait, by George Henry Durrie, 6 Jun 1820 - 15 Oct 1863

George Henry Durrie Self-Portrait

George Henry Durrie, 6 Jun 1820 - 15 Oct 1863 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter Scene in New Haven, Connecticut, by George Henry Durrie, born New Haven, CT 1820-died New Haven, CT 1863

Winter Scene in New Haven, Connecticut

George Henry Durrie, born New Haven, CT 1820-died New Haven, CT 1863 · ca. 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside, by Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879

Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside

Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant, by Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881

The Room in the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House, in which General Lee Surrendered to General Grant

Major & Knapp Lithography Company, active 1864 - c.1881 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lincoln and his Lieutenants, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Lincoln and his Lieutenants

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Council of War, by Peter Kramer, 1823 - 1907

Council of War

Peter Kramer, 1823 - 1907 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Jarvis Raymond, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Henry Jarvis Raymond

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Sheridan and His Staff, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

General Sheridan and His Staff

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. George and the Dragon, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

St. George and the Dragon

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
SUCRIERS DE SERVICE, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SUCRIERS DE SERVICE

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grant and His Generals, by Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Artists Around a Table, by Robert Henri, 25 Jun 1865 - 12 Jul 1929

Artists Around a Table

Robert Henri, 25 Jun 1865 - 12 Jul 1929 · c. 1920

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3005282 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 10:07 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.