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 W. Morrell” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 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.
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Public domainThe Met
George W. Morrell

George W. Morrell

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Moore (1852–1933), by Edouard Manet

George Moore (1852–1933)

Edouard Manet · 1879

Public domainThe Met
New York Weekly Messenger Vol. 2 No. 22

New York Weekly Messenger Vol. 2 No. 22

Artist not stated in the record · December 19, 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Washington, by Giuseppe Ceracchi

George Washington

Giuseppe Ceracchi · 1795

Public domainThe Met
President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan on Battle-Field of Antietam

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · October 3, 1862

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
Penstemon procerus subsp. aberrans (M.E. Jones) D.D. Keck

Penstemon procerus subsp. aberrans (M.E. Jones) D.D. Keck

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Polypodium nigrescens Blume

Polypodium nigrescens Blume

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Medallion with Saint George from an Icon Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Digitalis grandiflora Mill.

Digitalis grandiflora Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 1896

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
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo

Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo

Artist not stated in the record · 188

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Henry Loring, by Richard Morrell Staigg

George Henry Loring

Richard Morrell Staigg · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo

Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo

Artist not stated in the record · 1886

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

George Washington

James Peale · 1782

Public domainThe Met
Digitalis ambigua Murray

Digitalis ambigua Murray

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society, by T. Dixon

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society

T. Dixon · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Vermivora ruficapilla

Vermivora ruficapilla

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. George Henry Loring (Amalia Heredia), by Richard Morrell Staigg

Mrs. George Henry Loring (Amalia Heredia)

Richard Morrell Staigg · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Corvus brachyrhynchos

Corvus brachyrhynchos

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1894

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
Parus atricapillus

Parus atricapillus

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1896

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. 7559 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1081846 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-06 04:00 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.