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 “Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:33 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.
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528), by Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)

Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Ceiling paper

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904), by Louis Daniel Nimschke

Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904)

Louis Daniel Nimschke · ca. 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Female Nude in Studio], by Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes

[Female Nude in Studio]

Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes · 1856–59

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–08

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Ceiling paper

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child, by Léon Bonnat

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child

Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Frieze

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The New Bonnet, by Francis William Edmonds

The New Bonnet

Francis William Edmonds · 1858

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Frieze

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by Michel Redlin

Casket

Michel Redlin · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

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
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–07

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket, by R. & S. Garrard & Co.

Casket

R. & S. Garrard & Co. · 1875 or 1876

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Frieze

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - sample, by Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900

Sidewall - sample

Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1906–08

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. 811 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1232079 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:33 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.