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 “Hart and Wilcox” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:18 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.
Sheath, by Hart and Wilcox

Sheath

Hart and Wilcox · 1805–7

Public domainThe Met
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, by Unidentified Artist

Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox

Unidentified Artist · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword, by Hart and Wilcox

Sword

Hart and Wilcox · 1805–7

Public domainThe Met
Juncus marginatus Rostk.

Juncus marginatus Rostk.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Room from the Hart House, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Artist not stated in the record · 1680

Public domainThe Met
Possilby Breck or Wilcoxe, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Possilby Breck or Wilcoxe

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ducks in the Woods, by Julie Hart Beers

Ducks in the Woods

Julie Hart Beers · 1875

Public domainThe Met
Edmund Wilcox Rootes, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Edmund Wilcox Rootes

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer Woodlands, by Julie Hart Beers

Summer Woodlands

Julie Hart Beers · ca. 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Transverse Flute in D-flat

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Public domainThe Met
Wilcox Landing, by Andrew Joseph Russell

Wilcox Landing

Andrew Joseph Russell · 1861–65

Public domainThe Met
Transverse Flute in D-flat, by Claude Laurent

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Claude Laurent · 1813

Public domainThe Met
Colonel Arnold, Who Commanded the Provincial Troops Sent against Quebec, through the Wilderness of Canada and Was Wounded in Storming that City, under General Montgomery, by Thomas Hart

Colonel Arnold, Who Commanded the Provincial Troops Sent against Quebec, through the Wilderness of Canada and Was Wounded in Storming that City, under General Montgomery

Thomas Hart · March 26, 1776

Public domainThe Met
Coverlet, by Harry Tyler

Coverlet

Harry Tyler · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Center Table

Center Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865–70

Public domainThe Met
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. 610 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. 1470007 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 02:18 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.