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. 16 shown for “George Reid” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 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.
Roses in a Vase, by Mary Hiester Reid

Roses in a Vase

Mary Hiester Reid · 1891

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by William Rollinson, 1762 - 1842

George Washington

William Rollinson, 1762 - 1842 · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taperstick, by George Reid

Taperstick

George Reid · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
George Cochran Lambdin, by James Reid Lambdin, born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889

George Cochran Lambdin

James Reid Lambdin, born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889 · ca. 1845

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
Representative Journals and Journalists of America, by Buek & Lindner Lithography Company, active 1880 - 1890?

Representative Journals and Journalists of America

Buek & Lindner Lithography Company, active 1880 - 1890? · 1882

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
Molossus rufus rufus

Molossus rufus rufus

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George Wrightwick for Sir J.B.Y. Buller, by Reid Turner

Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George Wrightwick for Sir J.B.Y. Buller

Reid Turner · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Phyllostomus hastatus hastatus

Phyllostomus hastatus hastatus

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Dec 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peonies, by Edouard Manet

Peonies

Edouard Manet · 1864–65

Public domainThe Met
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII, by John Townsend Trowbridge

Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII

John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867

Public domainThe Met
The Natchez, by Eugène Delacroix

The Natchez

Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Public domainThe Met
Banner with Shaft

Banner with Shaft

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955), by Auguste Renoir

The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937), and Helyonne (1879–1955)

Auguste Renoir · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Admiral Harry Paulet (1719/20–1794), Sixth Duke of Bolton, by Francis Cotes

Admiral Harry Paulet (1719/20–1794), Sixth Duke of Bolton

Francis Cotes

Public domainThe Met
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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 194221 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:00 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.