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 “Griswold and Gunnison” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:16 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.
Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651, by Griswold and Gunnison

Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651

Griswold and Gunnison · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Griswold Goodrich, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer), by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1888, cast 1890

Public domainThe Met
Tetradymia canescens DC.

Tetradymia canescens DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Ashbil Griswold

Beaker

Ashbil Griswold · 1807–35

Public domainThe Met
Helianthus petiolaris Nutt.

Helianthus petiolaris Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by Ashbil Griswold

Dish

Ashbil Griswold · 1807–34

Public domainThe Met
Crepis intermedia A. Gray

Crepis intermedia A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soap dish, by Ashbil Griswold

Soap dish

Ashbil Griswold · 1807–35

Public domainThe Met
Crepis intermedia A. Gray

Crepis intermedia A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soap Box, by Ashbil Griswold

Soap Box

Ashbil Griswold · 1807–35

Public domainThe Met
Crepis intermedia A. Gray

Crepis intermedia A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needlework Picture: “The Finding of Moses in the River Nile”, by Mary Ann Parks Hammond

Needlework Picture: “The Finding of Moses in the River Nile”

Mary Ann Parks Hammond · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Hymenopappus filifolius var. cinereus (Rydb.) I.M. Johnst.

Hymenopappus filifolius var. cinereus (Rydb.) I.M. Johnst.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. James Clinton Griswold, by Charles Loring Elliott

Mrs. James Clinton Griswold

Charles Loring Elliott · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Actinea acaulis var. arizonica (Greene) S.F. Blake

Actinea acaulis var. arizonica (Greene) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corset, by Madam Griswold's

Corset

Madam Griswold's · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Senecio integerrimus Nutt.

Senecio integerrimus Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miquelet Rifle of Ali Pasha

Miquelet Rifle of Ali Pasha

Artist not stated in the record · lock and stock, dated A.H. 1224/1809–10 CE; barrel, 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus oophorus S. Watson in C. King

Astragalus oophorus S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miquelet Rifle

Miquelet Rifle

Artist not stated in the record · barrel dated A.H. 1151/1738–39 CE; lock dated A.H. 1240/1824–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus anisus M.E. Jones

Astragalus anisus M.E. Jones

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ecorché: Torso of a Male Cadaver, by Eugène Delacroix

Ecorché: Torso of a Male Cadaver

Eugène Delacroix · 1828?

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus molybdenus Barneby

Astragalus molybdenus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1955

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. 580 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1468896 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-31 23:16 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.