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. 17 shown for “Henry Carlton Wilber” — 50 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:56 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.
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio], by Henry Carlton Wilber

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio]

Henry Carlton Wilber · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England, by Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806

Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hall Carlton House, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Hall Carlton House

Thomas Rowlandson · April 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England, by Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806

Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hall Carlton House, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Hall Carlton House

Thomas Rowlandson · April 1, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Adoxa moschatellina L.

Adoxa moschatellina L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"An Old Man and His Young Wife Before Religious Arbitrators," Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di, by Daulat

"An Old Man and His Young Wife Before Religious Arbitrators," Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di

Daulat · 1610–15

Public domainThe Met
Francis A Wilber's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Francis A Wilber's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor, by George Cruikshank

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor

George Cruikshank · May 1, 1812

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum ascyron subsp. pyramidatum (Aiton) N. Robson

Hypericum ascyron subsp. pyramidatum (Aiton) N. Robson

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols, by John Manton & Son

Pair of Flintlock Pistols

John Manton & Son · 1815–34

Public domainThe Met
Anemone cylindrica A. Gray

Anemone cylindrica A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preston Hodges, by Charles Loring Elliott

Preston Hodges

Charles Loring Elliott · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Perognathus parvus lordi

Perognathus parvus lordi

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warwick Castle, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Warwick Castle

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Acer spicatum Lam.

Acer spicatum Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ilex pallida Standl.

Ilex pallida Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1978

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 116702 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:56 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.