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 “Gilman R. Russell, active 1855 - 1870” — 44 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:17 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.
Portrait of Mr. George Bailey, by Richard Dadd

Portrait of Mr. George Bailey

Richard Dadd · August 15, 1855

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Gilman R. Russell, active 1855 - 1870

Abraham Lincoln

Gilman R. Russell, active 1855 - 1870 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
William Howard Russell, by Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?

William Howard Russell

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame - Stamp, by Benjamin Wilson

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame - Stamp

Benjamin Wilson · March 18, 1766

Public domainThe Met
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman, by Ellen Day Hale, 11 Feb 1855 - 10 Feb 1940

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

Ellen Day Hale, 11 Feb 1855 - 10 Feb 1940 · before 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeremiah Howard Gilman

Jeremiah Howard Gilman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeremiah Howard Gilman

Jeremiah Howard Gilman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeremiah Howard Gilman

Jeremiah Howard Gilman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeremiah Howard Gilman

Jeremiah Howard Gilman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeremiah Howard Gilman

Jeremiah Howard Gilman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jeremiah Howard Gilman

Jeremiah Howard Gilman

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses, by Unidentified Artist

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daniel Coit Gilman, by Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916

Daniel Coit Gilman

Carleton E. Watkins, 11 Nov 1829 - 23 Jun 1916 · 1875

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1150668 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 20:17 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.