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. 12 shown for “George N. Barnard” — 40 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:05 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bonaventure, Savannah, Georgia, by George N. Barnard, born Coventry, CT 1819-died Cedarville, NY 1902

Bonaventure, Savannah, Georgia

George N. Barnard, born Coventry, CT 1819-died Cedarville, NY 1902 · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The "Hell Hole", New Hope Church, Georgia, from Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, plate 27, by George N. Barnard, born Coventry, CT 1819-died Cedarville, NY 1902

The "Hell Hole", New Hope Church, Georgia, from Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, plate 27

George N. Barnard, born Coventry, CT 1819-died Cedarville, NY 1902 · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
U.S.M. Bridge, Chattanooga, by George N. Barnard, born Coventry, CT 1819-died Cedarville, NY 1902

U.S.M. Bridge, Chattanooga

George N. Barnard, born Coventry, CT 1819-died Cedarville, NY 1902 · ca. 1860-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Slave Market, Atlanta, Ga.

The Slave Market, Atlanta, Ga.

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Carrie Lining

Carte-de-visite portrait of Carrie Lining

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Barnard, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

George Barnard

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled--Head), by George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938

(Untitled--Head)

George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1915-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled--Head, Two Women, studies), by George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938

(Untitled--Head, Two Women, studies)

George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled) (Mansfield 1907), by George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938

(Untitled) (Mansfield 1907)

George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled--Striding Figure), by George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938

(Untitled--Striding Figure)

George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1920-1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Untitled--Woman and Serpent), by George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938

(Untitled--Woman and Serpent)

George Grey Barnard, born Bellefonte, PA 1863-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1915-1925

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 573474 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 01:05 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.