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 “Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884” — 52 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:19 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.
Landscape – Fruit and Flowers, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

Landscape – Fruit and Flowers

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Stonewall Jackson, by Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884

Stonewall Jackson

Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rounding a Bend" on the Mississippi – The Parting Salute, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

"Rounding a Bend" on the Mississippi – The Parting Salute

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1866

Public domainThe Met
J. E. B. Stuart, by Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884

J. E. B. Stuart

Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Home of Evangeline – "In the Acadian Land", by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

The Home of Evangeline – "In the Acadian Land"

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Millard Fillmore, by Adam Weingartner, active 1849 - 1863

Millard Fillmore

Adam Weingartner, active 1849 - 1863 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Champions of the Mississippi – "A Race for the Buckhorns", by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

The Champions of the Mississippi – "A Race for the Buckhorns"

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Robert E. Lee, by Frederic François Dubois-Tesselin, 1832 - ?

Robert E. Lee

Frederic François Dubois-Tesselin, 1832 - ? · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound, by Currier & Ives

Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound

Currier & Ives · 1868–74

Public domainThe Met
John Quincy Adams, by Charles G. Crehen, 1829 - c. 1900

John Quincy Adams

Charles G. Crehen, 1829 - c. 1900 · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terrific Engagement between the "Monitor" 2 guns, and "Merrimac" 10 guns, in Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862 – The First Fight Between Ironclad Ships of War, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer

Terrific Engagement between the "Monitor" 2 guns, and "Merrimac" 10 guns, in Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862 – The First Fight Between Ironclad Ships of War

Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Robert E. Lee and his Generals, by Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884

Robert E. Lee and his Generals

Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington Taking Command of the American Army – At Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 3rd, 1775, by Currier & Ives

Washington Taking Command of the American Army – At Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 3rd, 1775

Currier & Ives · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Jefferson Davis and His Generals, by Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884

Jefferson Davis and His Generals

Goupil Lithography Company, active in America 1848 - 1884 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terrific Combat Between the "Monitor" 2 Guns & "Merrimac" 11 Guns – In Hampton Roads March 9th, 1862 – In which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole "School" of Rebel Steamers, by Currier & Ives

Terrific Combat Between the "Monitor" 2 Guns & "Merrimac" 11 Guns – In Hampton Roads March 9th, 1862 – In which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole "School" of Rebel Steamers

Currier & Ives · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Francis S. Chanfrau, by A. Hoen Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1981

Francis S. Chanfrau

A. Hoen Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1981 · c. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Progress of the Century – The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat., by Currier & Ives

The Progress of the Century – The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat.

Currier & Ives · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Zachary Taylor, by Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857

Zachary Taylor

Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Inauguration of Washington as First President of the United States, April 30th 1789 – At the Old City Hall, New York – The oath of office was administered by Chancellor Livingston of the State of New York – Mr. Otis the Secretary of the Senate holding up the Bible on a crimson cushion, by Currier & Ives

The Inauguration of Washington as First President of the United States, April 30th 1789 – At the Old City Hall, New York – The oath of office was administered by Chancellor Livingston of the State of New York – Mr. Otis the Secretary of the Senate holding up the Bible on a crimson cushion

Currier & Ives · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Caleb Strong, by Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854

Caleb Strong

Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854 · c. 1853-54

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington Crossing the Delaware – Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, December [2]5th, 1776, by Currier & Ives

Washington Crossing the Delaware – Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, December [2]5th, 1776

Currier & Ives · 1857–71

Public domainThe Met
General Winfield Scott, by Endicott Lithography Company, active 1828 - 1886

General Winfield Scott

Endicott Lithography Company, active 1828 - 1886 · c. 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dreadful Wreck of the Mexico on Hempstead Beach, January 2nd, 1837 – As Now Exhibiting at Hanington Dioramas–Perished in All–115 Souls., by H. Sewell

Dreadful Wreck of the Mexico on Hempstead Beach, January 2nd, 1837 – As Now Exhibiting at Hanington Dioramas–Perished in All–115 Souls.

H. Sewell · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
John Alexander Logan, by Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895

John Alexander Logan

Samuel S. Frizzell, 1843 - 1895 · c. 1884

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 0 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. 7479038 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-02 03:19 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.