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. 12 shown for “Hawkes, Charles W.” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:20 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press, by Hawkes, Charles W.

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press

Hawkes, Charles W. · ca 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press

Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hawk and fish, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Hawk and fish

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hawk on a leafless branch, by Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century)

Hawk on a leafless branch

Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century) · 1279-1368

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Tatar horseman with a hawk, by Formerly attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322)

A Tatar horseman with a hawk

Formerly attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah - Black Hawk A Saukie Brave, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah - Black Hawk A Saukie Brave

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rocks, trees, brook, and hawks, by Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Rocks, trees, brook, and hawks

Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Solanum iopetalum (Bitter) Hawkes

Solanum iopetalum (Bitter) Hawkes

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two hawks on a withered bough, by Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century)

Two hawks on a withered bough

Formerly attributed to Li You (11th or 12th century) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LITTLE CROW. A SIOUX CHIEF, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

LITTLE CROW. A SIOUX CHIEF, from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two hawks on a barren bough, by Formerly attributed to Li Demao (late 12th-early 13th century)

Two hawks on a barren bough

Formerly attributed to Li Demao (late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th century

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1030107 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 2026-09-05 22:20 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.