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 “H. A. Harvey” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Digenea simplex (Wulfen) C. Agardh

Digenea simplex (Wulfen) C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with cover (one of a pair), by I H

Vase with cover (one of a pair)

I H · 1675–76

Public domainThe Met
Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forssk.) Børgesen

Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (Forssk.) Børgesen

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
English Horn, by H. Grenser

English Horn

H. Grenser · before 1807

Public domainThe Met
Batophora oerstedii

Batophora oerstedii

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Herposiphonia tenella (C. Agardh) Ambronn

Herposiphonia tenella (C. Agardh) Ambronn

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Yuzurua poiteaui var. gemmifera (Harvey) M.J. Wynne

Yuzurua poiteaui var. gemmifera (Harvey) M.J. Wynne

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyxis (Cylindrical Container)

Pyxis (Cylindrical Container)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon barbatus (Cav.) Roth

Penstemon barbatus (Cav.) Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[The Harvey Album], by Emily Clare Harvey

[The Harvey Album]

Emily Clare Harvey · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Pinus engelmannii Carrière

Pinus engelmannii Carrière

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Public domainThe Met
Palisada perforata (Bory) K.W. Nam

Palisada perforata (Bory) K.W. Nam

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table, by Anthony G. Quervelle

Center Table

Anthony G. Quervelle · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Halimeda monile (J. Ellis & Sol.) J.V.Lamouroux

Halimeda monile (J. Ellis & Sol.) J.V.Lamouroux

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Proposed Rail Road for Broadway, by H. A. Harvey

Proposed Rail Road for Broadway

H. A. Harvey · 1848

Public domainThe Met
Proposed Railroad for Broadway, New York City

Proposed Railroad for Broadway, New York City

Artist not stated in the record · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary of Burgundy, by Master H.A. or A.H.

Mary of Burgundy

Master H.A. or A.H. · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon campanulatus (Cav.) Willd.

Penstemon campanulatus (Cav.) Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
First Arabesque Penchée, by Edgar Degas

First Arabesque Penchée

Edgar Degas · modeled probably before 1890, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon barbatus subsp. torreyi (Benth.) D.D. Keck

Penstemon barbatus subsp. torreyi (Benth.) D.D. Keck

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1935

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. 53615 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 2448755 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 2026-08-31 23:14 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.