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. 14 shown for “Henry Flavelle” — 46 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 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.
Miniature teapot (part of a set), by Henry Flavelle

Miniature teapot (part of a set)

Henry Flavelle · 1827 and 1829

Public domainThe Met
Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family, by Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family

Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature coffeepot (part of a set), by Henry Flavelle

Miniature coffeepot (part of a set)

Henry Flavelle · 1827 and 1829

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Longfellow, by James Henry Haseltine, 1833 - 1907

Henry W. Longfellow

James Henry Haseltine, 1833 - 1907 · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family, by Unknown

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family

Unknown · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Wilson, by Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865

Henry Wilson

Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Clay, by Henry F. Darby, 1829 - 1897

Henry Clay

Henry F. Darby, 1829 - 1897 · c. 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Wikoff, by Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?

Henry Wikoff

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Henry, by Henry Ulke, 29 Jan 1821 - 17 Feb 1910

Joseph Henry

Henry Ulke, 29 Jan 1821 - 17 Feb 1910 · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Henry Harrison, by Henry R. Robinson, active c. 1833 - 1851

William Henry Harrison

Henry R. Robinson, active c. 1833 - 1851 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Larcom Abbot, by Nahum Ball Onthank, 1823 - 1888

Henry Larcom Abbot

Nahum Ball Onthank, 1823 - 1888 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartoon for Printed Textile: The History of Henri IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Cartoon for Printed Textile: The History of Henri IV [L'Histoire de Henri IV]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1820

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 115519 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.